Where Web UI Libraries Are Heading

dev.to

3 pointsryansolid2 comments

Nice read!

I think the ultimate approach to front end will be streaming SSR + partial hydration like Marko does, for the first request. Then a client side router that loads pieces of HTML a la AJAX that are also partially hydrated from code splitted pieces of JS.

Obviously all neatly tied into a framework that runs on a Node/Deno server or a cloud function, and allows you to focus on simply making components.

Yeah I think that is the convergence point. Marko actually has a bit of a head start in some ways. But they need to look at the client part which I imagine with users like EBay is less necessary. React is likely getting pretty close, but I think their library size is making them consider how to remove the client routing piece. Preact still has the hurtle of getting their rendering as powerful as React Concurrent Mode. Solid's primitives are small and a nice stand in for Concurrent mode, but has the loosest data model which makes hydration tricky. But it will happen as all pieces are independently solved. It's actually not that simple for anyone to put it all together.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com