Frontend is dead, long live full stack
summary
Argues that the frontend/backend boundary is collapsing and shows how modern meta frameworks make UI code run on servers and edges using concrete features from Next.js Remix SvelteKit SolidStart and Qwik. Demonstrates file-based routing, data loaders and actions for mutations, React Server Components and simple fetch calls, and Qwik’s resumability via compiler-extracted closures marked with $ tokens that enable server$ functions, streaming, web worker offloading with worker$, and progressive enhancement with no-JS fallbacks.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:32Frontend is dead long live full stack
- 4:30How we got here
- 8:08Abstractions and complexity
- 10:14Modern full stack frameworks
- 15:16Evolution of the web
- 17:47Qwik and resumability
- 23:55Recap and future
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