What will succeed React?
I tried getting back to React but Vue makes so much more sense. Feels like in the old days because all you do is write your code instead of dealing with a library and its ways.
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My bet for next-gen frontend tech is on svelte and SolidJS. They are faster, lighter and their tooling scene isn't as fragmented.
I do think the future of DOM based diffing is no longer going to use a Virtual DOM. Svelte has shown the way. It just has to be moved into React (or a React successor).
I also think the future of Components is to use async/await more. Where each await point is assigned a fallback component e.g. <Loading /> or something.
React also needs to figure out Hooks a bit better, and see if there is a missing language feature that can be pushed to simplify that concept.
If something (including React) is able to do those three things, while also keeping/improving the React DX (markup and logic together, uni-directional dataflow, hook like annotations that can interoperate with each other), it'll likely de-throne React.
<Suspense fallback={<LoadingSkeleton />}>
<MyComponent />
Where your Server Component then looks as follows:
async function MyComponent() {
const data = await db.get('...')
return ...
There is a different type of delight that comes from the ergonomics on async/await. This is the big jump React Suspense also needs to make. I am not smart enough to suggest anything here tho. I just know the framework (including React) that can give me that async/await delight while using Suspense will dominate!
Other than that, prob. lit-dev (with time).
Yes. Nothing excites me more than web components and moving closer back to the browser. Somehow, it feels more exciting than server components, signals, compilers, resumability, etc. etc.