Fun Fast Tools for Serious Work
summary
Claims that development moves into the browser by running a small Rust HTTP server and a service-worker‑based dev tool that compiles and rewrites modules, yielding much faster boot and reload times (demo shows the normal flow taking ~9s while the new flow boots almost instantly and skips yarn install). Uses Embroider, import maps, Babel, webpack and snowpack for compatibility, publishes packages to S3, and ships a ~9MB worker called Mo that caches artifacts and indeed makes edits reflect immediately.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 0:42Side-by-Side Comparison
- 3:18Fundamentals
- 5:10What Comes Next
- 6:14Package Management
- 7:12Import Maps
- 8:44Static and Dynamic Linking
- 10:45Languages
- 17:49Webpack
- 20:51Snowpack
- 21:36Build Output
- 23:53Demo
- 36:40Key Takeaways
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