Adam Rackis

TanStack Router is one of the most exciting projects in the web development ecosystem right now, and it doesn’t get nearly enough attention. It’s a fully fledged client-side application framework that supports advanced routing, nested layouts, and hooks for loading data. Best of all, it does all of this with deep type safety. This post […]

TanStack Router is a comprehensive JavaScript framework for client-side applications, emphasizing type-safe routing and navigation. It includes nested layouts and efficient data loading.

The post discusses the drawbacks of null references in programming and introduces the Optional type as a solution, particularly in Java. The Optional type helps avoid null reference exceptions by allowing safe interaction with absent values using methods like ifPresent, ifPresentOrElse, map, and flatMap.

Svelte is already quite lightweight and fast, but Svelte 5 still overs big improvements in fine-grained reactivity, meaning re-rendering as absolutely little as possible.

Out with slots, in with snippets.

Svelte 5 introduces significant improvements in reactivity, state management, and prop handling, maintaining its user-friendly Developer Experience (DX).

Drizzle is a new ORM tool that blends traditional ORM querying with a typed SQL API. Drizzle supports various databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite) and aims to simplify SQL crafting while avoiding common ORM pitfalls.

This post explores advanced TypeScript utilities for testing and verifying type correctness, akin to unit testing without extra setup.

Server-side component rendering can improve data loading efficiency over client-rendered SPAs. Despite their benefits, such as out-of-order streaming, they have limitations, including slow server action updates and lack of support for client-side interactivity. React Query complements RSC by managing client-side data updates, addressing some of RSC’s drawbacks.

Let’s get into the challenges and strategies of loading data in web applications, focusing on the comparison between client-rendered sites and server-rendered applications. There are some clear negative performance impacts of SPAs and server-rendered apps are *usually* better here, except when data is slow. Then what?