🆕 The Future of Frameworks

and Best of React

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Journals GG
November 18, 2024

Hey there.

Here’s everything you need to know this week in the world of full-stack development.

Frontend Focus

Will we care about frameworks in the future?
Paul Kinlan recently shared a thought-provoking blog post questioning the future role of frameworks. He’s been deep into creating apps using LLMs and agents, operating on the hypothesis that these tools could shape the future of software development. As Kinlan builds, he intentionally avoids tweaking the machine-generated code, testing just how far we are from a reality where agents handle all coding. He suggests we’re on the brink of a major transformation, led by tools like Replit’s agents, where direct code manipulation might become obsolete. What do you think?

Best Of React
This list features 430 outstanding open-source React projects, boasting a combined 5 million stars, organized into 22 categories. Each project is ranked using a project-quality score, determined by a range of metrics gathered from GitHub and various package managers.

Programming

Good software development habits
In a recent blog post, Zarar discusses the challenge of breaking bad habits and forming good ones. Documenting what works helps them maintain productive habits that took effort to develop. To stay on track, Zarar shares 10 strategies that have improved their speed and upheld a solid level of quality in their current product development.

Open-Source Software Is in Crisis
Amid recent WordPress drama, Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, spotlighted what he calls the “maker-taker problem.” In a blog post, he explained that open-source software creators, or “makers,” often see their work utilized by others—like service providers—who profit without giving back meaningfully. This imbalance, Buytaert argues, poses challenges for sustaining open-source ecosystems fairly.

Tutorials

AI

Tools