TypeScript

Super excited that after a year of waiting, Remix v3 finally has a beta preview! I love how it’s actually a full-stack framework with libraries for auth, database models, s3, and everything else you end up assembling yourself.

Nextjs is a full-stack framework too, but it leaves a lot of the data-fetching and app architecture decisions up to you. That freedom is nice, but in practice every project ends up inventing its own stack out of a bunch of libraries.

Remix v3 feels more like Rails in a good way: opinionated enough to help you build quickly, but still composable enough that you can swap out their libraries when you need to.

I am a little surpised that there’s only discussion on Twitter. I was hoping to see more on Reddit or Hacker News.

Just like window.localStorage, I wish window.globalStorage was a thing. An easy for way all apps to have a database. No need to set up a database, etc for every little app. Just ship index.html.

I haven’t really thought about how authentication would work though. Would each browser store data sandboxed by website under a unique ID? Would users have to authenticate somehow before using it? Who is storing this data, and where?

Okay, I see why this doesn’t exist. Yet.