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Merrick Christensen

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Principal Software Engineer @ Webflow - Long Live the Open Web. Trying to follow Jesus. (he/him)

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Vite + React + TS

Play with @rolldown.rs in the browser via WASM with Module Federation support.

rolldown-browser-jade.vercel.app

Is the first instance of Module Federations built all in browser via WASM thanks to Rolldown!?

03.06.2025 04:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Codegen tools using @tailwindcss.com:

- V0
- Bolt
- Stitch
- Figma Make

Codegen tools using inline styles:

- Framer Workshop

Codegen tools using traditional CSS:

- πŸ¦—

Next token prediction demands co-location of styles... CSS-in-JS won for LLMs for the same reason it's better for people.

29.05.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A @lambert.fun is an amazing asset.

10.01.2025 23:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why don't React server components support even a one time use of React context in the same way rendering to HTML does?

06.01.2025 03:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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react/packages/react-server-dom-webpack at main Β· facebook/react The library for web and native user interfaces. Contribute to facebook/react development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've only seen people do this using one of the myriad `react-server-dom-<bundler>` packages... github.com/facebook/rea...

04.01.2025 01:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Will that produce RSC? Looks like it produces a stream of HTML?

04.01.2025 01:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!

02.01.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is `react-server-dom-webpack` still the best way to create RSC payloads directly?

02.01.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

With the recent Safari 18.2 release, WebAssembly Garbage Collection is now available in all the major browsers πŸ₯³

12.12.2024 07:26 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

I’m speaking from ignorance on that and would love if that’s true! Gotta adopt it on our code and see!

11.12.2024 20:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It depends on the expense of those renders whereas selectors tend to be drastically cheaper. I think Redux’s useExternalSyncStore and hooks implementations are good evidence of that.

11.12.2024 20:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In our case, a single context update without granularity could mean tens of thousands of renders. And if those renders are higher order components their reconciliation cost is multiplied... Sounds like the team is going to stick with the compiler bailouts in render rather than granular context read?

10.12.2024 21:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish you could see the sorts of things we've had to do to squeeze performance out of React at Webflow. Granted we're running a web app within a web app... but many of our unit tests leverage counting to ensure that optimizations aren't broken over time.

Really excited about compiler for us.

10.12.2024 21:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tie your hands to free your AI.

10.12.2024 20:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would really love to get granular updates from context updates. I remember seeing the idea of memoizing within use calls?

10.12.2024 20:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

And if you tag it @deprecated in the comment VSCode will strike through all the references and imports.

07.12.2024 07:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great stuff @kentcdodds.com !

06.12.2024 17:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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React v19 – React The library for web and native user interfaces

React 19 is now stable! react.dev/blog/2024/12...

05.12.2024 21:13 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI traps: Lessons from launching Webflow's AI Assistant | Webflow Blog Shipping useful AI products requires avoiding constant temptation.

AI traps: Lessons from launching Webflow's AI Assistant.

Another great post from @webflow engineering! πŸŽ‰πŸ™ŒπŸ™

webflow.com/blog/launchi...

05.12.2024 15:49 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey thanks for sharing!

03.12.2024 02:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude’s MCP already has file system and SQLLite implementations! If OpenAI adds support for this I’d be so stoked!

25.11.2024 23:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing the Model Context Protocol The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content repositories, business tools, and development environments. Its aim...

Model Context Protocol for standardizing how AI tools access context. Looks like LSP only for model context. Love it. www.anthropic.com/news/model-c... github.com/modelcontext...

25.11.2024 21:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’re up to 125 on the #webflow starter pack, seems like people are still arriving, give this a boost to help them find the community! go.bsky.app/Tij44E5

25.11.2024 18:23 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 3

By the time I'm done on this planet it'll all be archives of shame... πŸ˜†

25.11.2024 19:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Webflow Design Language: Bridging The Gap Between Design & Code | Webflow Blog An introduction to the Webflow Design Language.

I am so proud of the work we've done at Webflow building a programming language that is visual-first. I got the chance to write about some of the traits a language needs to support a No Code experience on our engineering blog here: webflow.com/blog/webflow...

25.11.2024 17:35 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Merrick Christensen Systems thinking, engineering principles &amp; general postulations. In pursuit of the timeless and great as it pertains to accomplishing amazing things with other people.

Reimplemented www.merrickchristensen.com from Gatsby/Styled Components -> Next.js 15/Tailwind CSS. Wanted a project that kicked the tires on server components end to end. Delighted by how comprehensive Next's support for RSC really is... Glad someone fully bet on that technology.

25.11.2024 16:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Right now, Bluesky feels like the early days of Twitter. Back before everyone was just trying to sell something and we could just talk about the craft.

So happy to see so much of the community here!

25.11.2024 03:08 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0