Kent C. Dodds, Co-Founder & Director of Developer Experience at Remix (remix.run) walks us through what Remix is, how it got started, and demos progressive enhancement, as well as the mental model that Remix gives you as you build a site.
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Key moments:
● 0:32 - State of JS Survey in 2021
● 1:32 - Dodds background
● 3:55 - Remix origin story
● 7:18 - Who is Remix for
● 9:25 - Where Remix isn't a fit
● 11:04 - 90% of Remix has nothing to do with React
● 14:11 - How Remix makes the developer life easier
● 21:50 - Remix Demo
● 28:33 - State management libraries? Not needed
● 36:28 Progressive Enhancement
● 38:17 - Building loading states
● 43:36 - How Remix maintains the order of operations
● 48:14 - Fetcher (or transition)
● 50:03 - React Server Components
● 54:25 - Plan for modernizing Remix
● 56:01 - Companies using Remix & its popularity
● 1:01:53 - How Remix compares against other modern frameworks
● 1:09:31 - Edge compute
● 1:10:52 - What can I look forward to!
