Fresh - the next level in web applications?
summary
Fresh runs on Deno and claims no build step by transpiling TypeScript on the fly and caching results, uses Preact for rendering, and pushes an island-based hydration model so only isolated widgets hydrate on the client. The demo shows a small app with a speaker list, a click counter and an add-speaker island that uses signals for cross-island state and an added confetti library; live reload and dependency caching work but adding new deps sometimes requires a server restart. Ecosystem is growing but not yet battle-tested.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 6:59History
- 13:52Deno: Dependency Management
- 15:35Deno: Using NPM specifiers
- 19:18Islands Architecture
- 23:18Client hydration
- 25:21Routing
- 26:03Persistence
- 27:27Tooling
- 39:22Conclusion
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