When your JavaScript framework gets acquired

Key Takeaways

it is Halloween 2022 and you're watching the code report the number one goal of every JavaScript framework developer is to make the world a better place the second goal is to make tons of money unfortunately this almost never happens except today remix the react framework was acquired by Shopify for those that Don't Know Remix is a framework similar to nexjs from the team behind react router while it only has a small fraction of the actual adoption of next JS it's been highly influential in the react ecosystem like many of the features announced in next 13 last week appear to be inspired by features and remix like nested layouts although one could argue that these features have been around forever in PHP Frameworks and elsewhere what's interesting though is that less than a year ago Shopify came out with its own react framework called hydrogen like nex13 hydrogen uses react server components which is the react team's official solution for a server-side rendering remix on the other hand takes an entirely different approach that doesn't rely on react server components now that Shopify is taking over stewardship of remix it creates this weird Schism around server-side rendering and react like do react server components totally suck or are they the future Shopify said quote while we're excited for the future of RSC long term as a critical dependency it presented a number of challenges that became performance risks for our developers and bottlenecks for our progress and they also talk about how they want a clear separation between client and server code that makes total sense for Shopify which has built itself with Ruby on Rails which has a strong separation of concerns it looks like their plan is to replace server components with remix over the coming months but remix will still remain its own independent open source project if you're a remix user I think this is definitely a good thing Shopify although its stock is down 75 percent the last year is a great company that will battle test this framework on their platform react server components though are being battle tested by Facebook whose stock is also down about 70 percent the reason the stock price is important in this context is because restricted stock units are a big part of compensation at both meta and Shopify and that just feels kind of demoralizing for the people who are employed to work on these Frameworks full time on top of that it seems like in 2022 people are becoming a lot more open-minded about alternative Frameworks like svelt solid and quick looking dank AF right now but only time will tell if they can become goaded with the sauce in fact I chose spell to overreact to rebuild the fireship pro website recently and I have absolutely no regrets the website is smaller faster and most importantly it was just way more fun to build in any case react is not going anywhere anytime soon and this is just the latest chapter in The Great JavaScript framework War this has been the code report thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one [Music]