marko VS solid

SolidJS and Tauri form another potent combination for creating performant, lightweight, and secure experiences. SolidJS is a reactive UI library that is similar to Svelte in the way it compiles away reactivity and updates the DOM directly, but it also incorporates a fine-grained reactivity system reminiscent of libraries like Marko, Knockout, and MobX.

Marko is a huge leap in the right direction. It has streaming, partial hydration, a compiler that optimizes your output, and a small runtime. I’ve also heard through the grapevine that Marko V6 also adds resumability to the framework as well.

Nevertheless, the future of JS frameworks is exciting. As we’ve seen from the data, Astro is doing some things right alongside Qwik. However, more noteworthy frameworks such as Marko and Solid are also paving the path forward with some similar traits and better performance benchmarks. We’ve come back full circle in web development - from PHP/Rails to SPAs and now back to SSR. Maybe we just need to break the cycle.

The strength of V-DOM definitely doesn't lay in performance. It made it easier for developers to write more maintainable interactive UI. Other than that I'd rather think of it as a compromise. Fortunately, frontend web dev continuously progresses and there are initiatives like https://github.com/ryansolid/solid which focus on compilation-time diffing.

You see I work 12 hours a day. 8 hours of that is my professional job where I am a developer on the Marko core team at eBay. Then after some much-needed time with my family, my second job starts where I am core maintainer of the under-the-radar hot new reactive framework Solid.

They’ve been well received, and the core ideas behind them have inspired the likes of Vue’s Composition API and a big part of Solid’s API.

After discovering solid js, I wondered how feasible it would be to write such a framework in Rust. After two days of hacking around, here is the result!

After discovering solid js, I wondered how feasible it would be to write such a framework in Rust. After two days of hacking around, here is the result!

Solidjs UI library uses Proxies in order to make state reactive https://github.com/ryansolid/solid

[0] https://github.com/ryansolid/solid#the-gist

The key thing to understand though is this is not a React-only approach. I make heavy use of this pattern in my Solid projects as it makes a really nice isomorphic solution and works really well with the next topic...

The main ones that I'm referring to have proxy implementations along with their basic signal atoms. MobX's `observable`, Vue's `reactive`, Solid's `state` all are reactive proxies that properly handle subscriptions.