The New Dynamic: The State of Web Infrastructure mid-2022 with Tommy Williams

2022 is a lot different from 2017, yet we seem to hover around similar problems: SSG vs SPA vs SSR, client vs server, when to render, when to fetch, hydration, and state management.

I feel like everything used to be so black and white. I was a front-end dev, firmly on team SSG; but today, everything is so gray: caching, redirects / proxies, image optimization, headless CMSs, CDNs, APIs, serverless functions.

But new is exciting: how does vite / remix influence the next rewrite? Does the edge remind anyone else of service workers? Tailwind, and PWAs, and
monorepos, oh my! Theres a lot to cover, welcome to the new dynamic.

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Tommy Williams is far from a computer scientist. He transferred out of art school into a psych degree, before landing in UI/UX and other misc front end. He enjoys build infrastructure, especially the maw that is SSG. Recently, has gone full circle into server-land, and is having fun setting up a homelab. He enjoys personality theory, cycling, martial arts, and techno.