Brandon Bayor walks us through the ideation, creation, and framework itself – Blitz.js. Learn how it stands out from its competitors, like Redwood.
Key moments:
• How Brandon got started in software engineering (1:24)
• How Blitz.js got started from Next.js, Prisma and Ruby on Rails (3:21)
• Why Ruby on Rails is great for the JavaScript developer (5:10)
• The “loose” opinions and libraries of Blitz.js (7:00)
• Core contributors to the framework (9:09)• 7-minute demo of Blitz.js (10:35)
• When is Blitz 1.0 (22:07)
• Biggest companies running with Blitz in prod today (23:39)
• Challenges users may face in dev or prod pre-1.0 (25:20)
• Benefits of forking Next.js (28:05)
• Fullstack framework competition and how Blitz stacks up (34:33)
• How Blitz fits into the Jamstack space (40:24)
• What is Flightcontrol (42:06)
• Blitz.js post-1.0 (45:55)