Keynote: A Conversation with Tom Preston-Werner
summary
First-hand account of building GitHub Pages and the static-site workflow that makes push-to-deploy ubiquitous, plus origins of Gravatar, Jekyll and TOML. Describes Redwood JS as a full-stack TypeScript/JavaScript framework that bundles Prisma, React and optional GraphQL, and is migrating from Webpack to Vite for speed. Announces experimental react server components support to make GraphQL optional and speed SSR streaming. Shares a hardware side project: NFC “Wonder Cards” prototypes using ESP8266/ESP32, CNC-milled cases and working prototypes for tactile music selection.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Tom's journey into coding
- 2:25The origin of Jekyll
- 6:05The rise of Jamstack
- 8:26Introduction to Redwood JS
- 12:05Future of Redwood architecture
- 18:33Adopting Vite
- 21:02Future of web development
- 25:00The Wonder Cards project
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