Interesting development. If I were to guess who would acquire (acquihire?) Remix I would have said Cloudflare.
Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
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#82I never used Remix, why is it worth it investing in Remix?
It's just an optimization to make your react pages load faster.
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#83This is huge. Remix is my favorite React framework at the moment. It is by far the best abstraction I've seen of client/server model. Their API abstraction layer is just right, working with native browser and nodejs APIs, not obscure them. Typescript support is amazing. I'd bet my money on Remix model and direction vs Nextjs
Vercel already ate Remix’s lunch.
By far.
Re: Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
#84This is huge. Remix is my favorite React framework at the moment. It is by far the best abstraction I've seen of client/server model. Their API abstraction layer is just right, working with native browser and nodejs APIs, not obscure them. Typescript support is amazing. I'd bet my money on Remix model and direction vs Nextjs
Wait, isn't React a js framework? Is Remix a framework over a framework?
Re: Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW: Tobi mentioned that if he had to do it all over again, he would still build the admin and business logic of Shopify in Ruby on Rails, but would probably build their liquid rendering in Rust or something like it https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1585459224506671104?s=20&t=0...
Probably only because that's what he's familiar with. Rails has the most ubiquitous scale problems that large co's keep migrating away from, and new devs are trending away from it. Shopify investing into the JS/TS backend world is just another domino falling of Ruby/Rails descending into Perl-like prevalence.
They are spending tens of millions building a ruby JIT so I am not sure you are painting an accurate picture here...
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#86Didn't Remix raise funding? Trying to read between the lines here. No appetite to raise further funding? Too much competition? Just curious.
They did raise funding. It's unclear to me what their business model would have been (compete with Vercel?), and maybe the struggle to find one was why they decided to go for an acquisition.
I remember they had a really expensive subscription model (even for solo developers). They were looking to get traction based on the reputation of the founders and other tech influencers (like Kent C Dodds) in the react community.
Personally I felt that they were not very clear on who their target audience was and what was the niche that they were trying to address to transition from good to great dev experience.
Re: Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
#87This is huge. Remix is my favorite React framework at the moment. It is by far the best abstraction I've seen of client/server model. Their API abstraction layer is just right, working with native browser and nodejs APIs, not obscure them. Typescript support is amazing. I'd bet my money on Remix model and direction vs Nextjs
Wait, isn't React a js framework? Is Remix a framework over a framework?
It's technically a UI library. Though the line there is fuzzy.
Re: Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
#88Interesting development. If I were to guess who would acquire (acquihire?) Remix I would have said Cloudflare.
Cloudflare acquihired the Linc team a while back
Re: Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
#89How does remix compare to nextjs?
Re: Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
#90This is huge. Remix is my favorite React framework at the moment. It is by far the best abstraction I've seen of client/server model. Their API abstraction layer is just right, working with native browser and nodejs APIs, not obscure them. Typescript support is amazing. I'd bet my money on Remix model and direction vs Nextjs
Wait, isn't React a js framework? Is Remix a framework over a framework?
If we're calling both "framework" (though as another commenter mentioned, the React package is pretty much just a UI library) then you can think of React as a UI framework and Remix as an application framework. You use the React UI framework in the Remix (or NextJS) application framework.