It's definitely feeling like we're entering a new phase in the evolution of Jamstack tools. Rather than the conversation being dominated by a single framework, there seems to be a handful of alternative tools that have gained traction among developers.
The nice thing, to me anyway, is that each has a very unique take. This week's discussion is all around three of these alternatives: Eleventy (which recently released 2.0), SvelteKit and Astro.
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The Need for Speed: Why Eleventy Leaves Bundlers Behind
Zach Leatherman, Eleventy’s creator, explains why he believes that we are in a “post-bundler phase of development”, why not using a bundler helps Eleventy build faster, and discusses some of the new features of the SSG.
Loraine Lawson
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A Business Case for SvelteKit
This is a really good post covering the experience migrating from Meteor to SvelteKit, the process the team undertook, and the outcomes from both a performance and UX point of view.
Chris Ellis
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Astro and Azure Static Web Apps
The basics of getting started with Astro, why you might want to explore Azure as a deployment option and how to deploy a static Astro site to Azure.
Florian Rappl
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Using TRPC in Astro and its (React) islands
tRPC gives end-to-end type safety when working with APIs and this guide shows how to implement it in Astro on the server side and on the client-side using React.
Thomas Ledoux
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✂︎ Tools, Resources & More...
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Framework-Defined Infrastructure
Vercel’s CTO explains how they believe that having infrastructure defined as implementation details of the framework is the next evolution of the infrastructure as code concept.
Malte Ubl
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Thanks for reading. — Brian
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