Tom Preston-Werner joins Sam and Ryan to talk about some of the architecture decisions behind Redwood JS, a recently released full-stack JS framework he's been working on for more than a year. Tom talks about how Redwood's Services provide a first-class layer of abstraction on top of your backend data models for your application's business logic, why Redwood went all-in on GraphQL, and how the framework is poised to take advantage of future improvements coming to serverless infrastructure.
Topics include:
0:00 – Rails' influence on Redwood
8:00 – How Redwood Services keep your backend code organized
12:04 – The decisions driven by the desire to write React on the frontend
22:57 – Deep dive into Redwood Services
30:58 – Why Redwood uses GraphQL
44:37 – Caches & invalidation
55:52 – Why Cells are more than Hooks
1:07:02 – How databases can make their way into the JAMStack
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