Data

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. I previously […]

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.

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?