Virtual Lolly

Making virtual lollipops for you to send to people to pep them up.

(Also a proof of concept site demonstrating a Jamstack approach where newly created content is rendered from a content API, while a static render of it is being built into the site for future )

https://vlolly.net/

Deployed and hosted on Netlify

• User generated data stored by Fauna DB via a serverless function
• Site generate (pre-rendered) by Eleventy
• Newly created items served via a client-side request to the content API thanks to Netlify's custom 404 routing

Learn more

There is a more detailed explanation of how this works and what it demonstrates on CSS-Tricks

👉 https://css-tricks.com/static-first-pre-generated-jamstack-sites-with-serverless-rendering-as-a-fallback/