July 2, 2024
Moving our site from Netlify to Fly.io
We recently switched our main website from Netlify to Fly.io. This was a pretty smooth process and we're happy with the results. Here's a quick overview of our experience.
Redwood is the
full-stack JavaScript
application framework.
Batteries, backend, React, conventions, and opinions included.
Get Started on our Established Base
yarn create redwood-app
What's Included?
Deployment that Eliminates Vendor Lock-In
You have the power of choice without the complexity.
CLI that Provides a Silky Smooth DX
It’s power at your finger tips. Setup auth with a single command. Scaffold your application. Generate components, layouts, and pages.
Render Content, How You Want It, When You Want It
In Bighorn, Redwood supports Client and Server Side Rendering. It has flexible rendering options, on a per-page level, optimizing your application for enhanced speed and performance.
Routing, Meant for Scale
Routes aren’t tied to file and folder naming conventions that make change hard.
Best-in Class Technologies
This is NOT a starter project or a template. We’ve taken the best in class libraries and frameworks that you already know and love and given them first-class support within Redwood. Setup is simple and maintenance is negligible.
Independent Open Source Project
We’re obsessed with creating the best possible developer experience and building a framework that enables the community to build at scale.
Simplified Email
Redwood offers a convenient way to send email in either a developer or production environment through Studio.
Logging for Debugging Queries, Resolvers, and Requests
Logging is essential for raising critical errors. In staging and development environments, logging helps you debug queries, resolvers and cell requests.
Roadmap
This is a glimpse into what we're working on and what we've planned.
Done
done
React Server Components, Server Side Cells (async)
Implement efficient data fetching mechanisms on the server to retrieve and serve data to the client-side application, optimizing performance and reducing latency for a better user experience.
done
Server Side Routing
Implement server-side routing to manage navigation and URL handling efficiently, improving user experience and enabling direct linking to specific content within the application.
done
Client Side Cells (GraphQL)
Maintain client-side cells that empower users to execute GraphQL calls directly from the client, facilitating real-time data interaction and updates within the application.
done
CSS Support
Implement comprehensive CSS support to allow developers to style their applications with ease, supporting both traditional stylesheets and modern CSS-in-JS solutions for flexible, component-scoped styling.
In Progress
soon
Integrate Server Side Rendering with React Server Components
Seamlessly integrate Server Side Rendering (SSR) with React Server Components to enable dynamic content rendering on the server, improving load times and SEO while maintaining a rich interactive user experience.
soon
Client Side Routing
Maintain client-side routing to enable seamless, single-page application navigation without full page reloads, leveraging dynamic content loading for a smoother user experience.
soon
ESM Support
Provide full support for ECMAScript modules (ESM) to enable modern, efficient JavaScript development workflows, allowing for better code organization and compatibility with the latest web standards.
soon
External Resources
Expand the framework to include external resource support, enabling seamless integration of SVGs and custom fonts to enhance visual design and typographic flexibility.
Planned
planned
New Create Redwood App
Develop a Redwood Command Line Interface (CLI) tool to streamline development processes, offering commands for project scaffolding, code generation, and utility functions to enhance developer productivity.
planned
Deploying
Facilitate a smooth deployment process for RedwoodJS applications, integrating with popular hosting services and providing clear documentation on best practices for deploying to production environments.
planned
Server Actions and Mutations
Asynchronous server-side functions designed to handle form submissions and data mutations across client and server components.
June 18, 2024
"Love reloaded": A DX Story
Redwood aims is to provide a fast, robust and comprehensible React Server Component experience. We're iterating towards improving that experience by adding a RSC development server that supports live reload. What is Live Reload? Live reload is a feat...
June 4, 2024
Experiments: Rails-like Form Helpers
After ReactConf 2024 I was inspired by this tweet: https://x.com/chantastic/status/1791531154212033004 In it, Sam Selikoff says that the JS ecosystem has yet to demonstrate the same kind of powerful forms that have been available in Rails since jus...
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