RemixJS is in every React developer’s mouth right now, as they seem to be the new kid in the block. But how good are they? Instead of reviewing othe

I Built a Blog with RemixJS so You Don't Have To (You're Welcome)

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2022-01-23 15:00:06

RemixJS is in every React developer’s mouth right now, as they seem to be the new kid in the block. But how good are they? Instead of reviewing other people’s experiences, I went ahead and followed their quick start guide to build my own mini static blog and then added some dynamic behavior. Was it good? Does it live up to the hype?

Getting started with Remix is relatively easy, although their one-liner didn’t exactly work as planned. I guess that’s because I’m on a Windows box and NPM had some trouble installing some dependencies. I’m assuming this is something they’ll work on in the future.

Everything else, to be honest. Once I managed to get the dev server up and running (meaning, once I understood the script I had to run), it just worked. The generator worked properly and created every file it needed and even though I had a bunch of errors during the dependency installation step, the needed ones were there, so it all worked.

The watch feature also was great because both the server and the UI were updated before I could finish ALT+TABing into the browser.

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