Sunil Pai: React and the Meta of the Web [Swyx Mixtape]
A wideranging podcast with Sunil covering the future of React, the Third Age of JavaScript, and the Meta of online discourse.
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Sunil's Slides: https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0MyOJk...
https://react-lazy.coolcomputerclub.com/
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Benedict Evans' blogpost on Word Processors https://www.ben-evans.com/benedicteva...
https://auth0.com/blog/introducing-au...
React Server Components and Shopify Hydrogen / 1410103013885108229
Canva is 4x Figma valuation / 1438102616156917767
Chapters:
00:00:00 Swyx intro
00:01:40 React and Temporal, Declarative vs Imperative
00:12:57 State Charts and Lucylang
00:17:08 The Future of React
00:25:03 React Streaming Server Rendering vs SSR/JAMstack/DSG/DPR/ISR
00:33:13 Next.js and the Open Source Commons
00:38:46 The Third Age of JavaScript
00:45:16 ESbuild vs SWC vs Bun
00:50:46 Let Non-X Do X: Figma vs Canva, Webflow vs Wix/Squarespace
Canva vs Figma valuations
00:52:42 JavaScript Twitter and Notion's 9mb Marketing Site
01:06:33 React Server Components and Shopify Hydrogen/Oxygen
01:09:18 Categorical Imperatives of Web Platforms: Cloudflare vs AWS, MongoDB vs Auth0, Gatsby vs Netlify
01:18:34 Wrap-up