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Choosing My Frontend Stack, Part II

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What started out as me Choosing my Frontend Language evolved into me playing around with more and more parts of the frontend stack.

Some learnings:

  • The longer I interact with it, the more I’m getting the feeling that ClojureScripts heavy reliance on the Google Closure Compiler is actually pretty bad.
  • bun is pretty darn fast.
    It’s highly confusing what exactly bun provides when comparing it to basically any other DX tool in the JS ecosystem:
    • It’s a bundler like webpack/esbuild
    • It’s a JS runtime like Node.js and Deno
    • It has a webserver—but no dev server with HMR. For that, you can/probably want to use Vite.
  • But Vite is also basically everything you need on the JS side, except for being a JS runtime.
  • There’s two cljs-dialecty things called squint and cherry by borkdude.
  • nanostores are pretty neat.
    • no more shuffling state around
    • can define my reactive values super declaratively (computed stores)
  • SolidJS (+nanostores) is actually pretty nice. I can shell out to React-as-it-should’ve-been whenever I like to, but can have my reactive values in a pretty declarative style in my store.

As of now, I’m relatively confident that bun/Vite/squint/SolidJS/nanostores is my new favourite frontend stack.