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by jacquesc 1320 days ago
Anyone currently using Remix in a production app? Read through the docs and it seems pretty interesting. Can't really get a sense for how stable it is though.

I know from prior use of React Router, the maintainers love the big rewrites between major version numbers.

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Yes. The use of loaders and actions blurs the lines between client and server. It's really productive. There are a few gaps that need filling, one that comes to mind is internationalisation [1]

I am very surprised that NextJS has left it so long to consider mutations - they're apparently coming up with an RFC on that but it seems to be somewhat behind closed doors.

[1] https://github.com/remix-run/remix/discussions/2877

I agree, the API on remix seems awesome
Mix feeling of this Correlation:

React Router -> Remix

Redux -> RSC

Snowpack -> Astro

"This time, we will make it right" kind of feeling.

What’s RSC?

Edit – I think I found it: RSC is React Server Components. Per React’s December 2020 blog post https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react... and June 2022 blog post https://reactjs.org/blog/2022/06/15/react-labs-what-we-have-..., the technology is still in development.

Searches like “RSC JavaScript” and “RSC Redux” didn’t turn up anything. I only found the term “React Server Components” in the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994621 while reading discussion of a January 2022 blog post “Remix vs Next.js”.

I hear. There's quite many kool-aid words in this area, that keeps coming up. "Island", "partial hydration", "isomorphic", without given context it's just non-sense. Even experienced developers hearing "SSR" would wonder .. wait what, why are you bringing up this obvious "server-sided rendering" .. turns out javascript folks treat it like something no one haven't ever done before. It's all confusing.
I built a status page service (https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/) on Remix, I find the data fetching patterns (and SEO) make a hell of a lot more sense than Next.js
Yeah we use it. It has been fantastic. Having a mutation story is an absolute game changer for productivity