Issue #133

Number one this week, wmr (“Web Modules Runtime”) is a tool to build develop modern web applications with JSX.

It’s built on top of Preact a popular clone of React: almost the same API, including functional components and hooks but with a smaller footprint.

One of the main features is that you don’t have to install dependencies using npm install, you can call external packages by importing them directly in the code. It relies on the support of JavaScript modules by modern browsers.

Also it provides “Hot Module Reloading” to reflect changes in the browser a few milliseconds after any change in the code.

These two features, along to the support of TypeScript out-of-the-box, lead to a great Developer Experience.

A big difference with other solutions is the small footprint on the local disk: only 2.8 MB compared to hundreds of MB for a typical application built with Create React Application for example.

However, including ESLint (which is optional) would add more than 150 MB… which is annoying if you consider linting as a must-have feature of your workflow (I do!).

Features are not only limited to the development, for production wmr is able to pre-render all pages at build time, which is impressive for such a “tiny” tool.

Check Snowpack if you look for a more robust alternative.

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