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A walk-through of the evolution of SSR in the last twelve years. We will cover how techniques changed, typical problems, tools you can use and various solutions, all from the point of view of my personal experience as a consumer and maintainer.

Picking up a new technology, developers stick with defaults. It's a fact that every tool from JQuery to NextJS has needed to face. At their worst, defaults ship hundreds of wasted JS kilobytes for routing, state, and other baggage developers may never use. But at their best, defaults give us a simple baseline to start from, with a clear path to add the exact set of features our project demands. This is the magic of opt-in design.
Let's see how smart defaults guide modern frontend tools from Astro to React Server Components, and why this new era reshapes your workflow, and performance metrics, for the better.

An introduction to the emerging islands architecture which can significantly improve the performance of your apps.

Web application development has had many shifts over the lifetime of the web. From server-side applications with a sprinkle of JavaScript to Single Page Applications built entirely with JavaScript. Now we’re heading back to where many new web frameworks build for static first, with JavaScript added as needed. This talk covers building web applications with JavaScript through the lens of Astro, a static site generator where the choice of JavaScript framework is uniquely yours.