Pika: Reimagining the Registry
summary
Pika claims bundlers aren’t required for everyday development and demonstrates concrete numbers and tools: measured apps with a one-minute cold start and 11s recompiles motivate a goal of start time <1s and recompile <300ms. Picoweb is built to run npm packages in the browser, addressing three concrete problems—CommonJS deps, nonstandard import paths, and Node-isms—by rewriting and installing ESM-ready modules and only rebuilding when dependencies change; a hosted Pikacdn serves preprocessed packages for immediate use.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 5:37Browserify
- 9:14Workarounds
- 10:57Do We Still Need Bundlers
- 11:21Bad Imports
- 12:50Picoweb
- 18:24Javascript Fatigue
- 20:31Pikacdn
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