Hasty Treat - Future Tech We're Excited About

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about future tech — some things you may not have heard about yet, and why we're excited about them!

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Show Notes

05:20 - Astro

• What it is:
  • astro.build is a next gen "meta" framework that eases some of React's pain but also is not just React.
  • https://twitter.com/georges_gomes/status/1380801812656226304
• Why we're excited about it:
  • Server Side JS frameworks, combine Svelte, React, Vue as needed in one component that is an SFC using markdown style meta data.
  • Scoped CSS by default (a la Svelte). Sass out of the box.
  • Collections import for .md files

// pages/blog.astro
---
import PostPreview from '../components/PostPreview.astro';

const blogPosts = import.meta.collections('./post/*.md');
---

<main>
  <h1>Blog Posts</h1>
  {blogPosts.map((post) => (
    <PostPreview post={post} />
  )}
</main>

12:06 - ViteKit

• What it is:
  • Framework-agnostic
  • API routes
  • Pages (frontend, optional hydration)
  • Adapter for Node, static, Vercel, cf worker, etc. Inspired by SvelteKit.

15:58 - Svelte Kit

19:07 - Remix.run

• What it is:
  • Remix.run
  • Fullstack React framework
• Why we're excited about it:
  • Made by Michael Jackson, Ryan Florence
  • License-based
  • React-based
  • Caching-focused, uses "the platform"
  • Centralized data loading, works without client JS if needed
  • Better nested routing

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