Sam and Ryan discuss what has driven JavaScript adoption on the web over the past 5-10 years, and what implications those drivers have had for the tools and frameworks we work with today. They also talk about why it's still so hard to build good SPA experiences on the web.
Topics include:
5:10 – Finding real-world pain points
8:44 – Mirage Inspector's serverless backend
15:30 – Not being happy with our stack
18:38 – Why on SPAs on the web tend to be so awful?
30:37 – What has driven JS adoption?
45:42 - GraphQL vs Rails 5 years in
49:10 – SWR and a useResource hook
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