Web frameworks

Web frameworks

Ripple is a new open-source front-end framework taking ideas from React, SolidJS, and Svelte into a TypeScript-first, component-oriented, JSX-like compiled language with fine-grained reactivity and scoped CSS. Created by Svelte maintainer Dominic Gannaway, Ripple offers a reactivity system with automatic dependency tracking, and direct DOM updates without a virtual DOM. Ripple aims to support better debugging through AI agents. The following code sample exemplifies many of the core Ripple features:

Coming from the framework world with its wide streets, I've learned that all the magic and convenience comes with a hidden price tag. Every new version brought extra maintenance, dependency chains, and features I never asked for but had to carry. My move to the web has been a bumpy road - acronyms, frameworks, libraries everywhere. To make sense of it, I decided to document my journey.

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AnalogJS, a full-stack Angular meta-framework powered by Vite and Nitro, has officially released version 2.0, delivering powerful new capabilities around content management, build efficiency, and seamless developer tooling. The update marks a big step in Analog's evolution, strengthening its appeal for both content-heavy sites and large Angular applications. One of the release's new features are content resources, enabling developers to treat content (such as Markdown files) as first-class resources.

The Disk and LocalDisk services have a new method mkdirIfNotExists to creates directories. This is useful when using the local file system to ensure that a directory exists before saving files. Otherwise, an error can be thrown when it does not. On cloud storage services such as S3, directories are created automatically when saving files so this method does nothing.

The v1 release emphasizes three major areas: type-safe routing & APIs, streaming-enabled SSR, and deployment flexibility. At its core, TanStack Start inherits the Router's fully inferred typing system, extending it into server-routes and loader functions so that navigation and data-loading share the same type definitions. The streaming SSR model lets applications send HTML to the client as soon as it's ready, then hydrate and continue interactive loading, blurring the line between client and server rendering.

The release of Apache Grails 7.0.0 delivers bug fixes and notable changes such as: the ability to disable Micronaut auto configuration through the Grails plugin; improved reproducibility with implementations of Grails Object Relational Mapper (GORM) services; and a temporary removal of the GORM for Neo4J. Grails 7.0 requires a minimal version of JDK 17 (with testing validated up to JDK 21) and compliance with Spring Boot 3.5 and Jakarta EE 10.

Nitro.js is a JavaScript-based HTTP server. It builds on state-of-the-art components, focusing on performance, convention, and deployment. As a JavaScript developer, you want to know about Nitro because it's built from the ground up for modern, full-stack web development. It brings together a wealth of good ideas and is becoming a go-to server option. Nitro is deployment-aware, designed to make it easy to deploy your code to a variety of production platforms, from Node to serverless and edge computing hosts like Vercel or CloudFlare.

Reactive programming is an important coding style that evolved from the functional programming world. Reactive code is ideal for processing and connecting realtime streaming data. You can use reactive programming to compose streams into pipelines that cleanly model complex logic with non-blocking operations. Java has excellent reactive support, and one of the most popular reactive Java frameworks is Spring WebFlux.

The hype around the introduction of React Server Components (RSC) was undeniable. For the uninitiated, RSCs are a new way to build React apps that render components on the server, keeping code and data-fetching logic away from the client. The promise was appealing: a unified approach to server and client rendering, unmatched performance, and simpler data fetching, enough to convince many of us that this was the next best thing after cheese.