A brief update on my open source work...
The framework I've spent the last 6 months building is stable enough that I'm running it in production for an application at work.
One of the primary drivers for not using React/Vue/Angular/Other is the inherent complexity within all of them.
Instead, I wanted something that could meet the criteria of a Trivial Technology:
I feel tag meets this, where other contemporary approaches fail.
Next steps for me will be to finally begin building applications for Solid.
I gave an update on the forums yesterday.
https://forum.solidproject.org/t/idea-launcher-app/3468/4
While I would have loved to start building last year, I genuinely don't believe React et al., will still be relevant in the next ten years and I'm trying to make apps that will last for as long as the web lasts.
cc
@VincentTunru @noeldemartin since i know both of you are invested in the solid ecosystem :)
@tychi @VincentTunru Thanks for the ping, I'll check it out and I'll be looking forward to see what you make with Solid :).
Going for Simple is probably a good idea, it seems like I've taken the complete opposite route and I'm second guessing that choice every day xD. I do want my apps to last as long as the web though :).
@tychi Yeah I know waiting for the network is annoying, that's why the app I'm working on will be offline-first, and I'll eventually update Media Kraken as well :D. But it's definitely not simple under the hood, it was already complicated enough with an ORM for Solid, now I'm adding sort of a CRDT 😅 .
I'd be happy to help you if you have any questions about Solid, feel free to ask me if you ever get stuck or have any doubts :).
@noeldemartin thanks for making Media Kraken btw, playing with it got me interested the potential for Solid.
if you want to try combining forces on anything, you've got solid knowledge and i know the ins and outs of Tag.
i think the coolest thing about combining solid and tag is that tag persists state into IndexedDB automatically. subsequent loads can read without waiting on the network.
i mean, hypothetically 😅, but it does work with the GraphQL based approach at work.