Guillermo Rauch: The Post Jamstack World & the Rise of Hybrid Frameworks

[Music] hello everybody this is guillermo and i'm really excited to be here with you today hope you're all staying safe i'm here to talk about today about the post jam set world and what that entails and the rise of uh hybrid frameworks like an xjs

so i like to start by contextualizing kind of the state that we're in today and the problems that we're solving and perhaps starting with a little bit of a green message but later on terence really optimistic i promise which is that the web is in jeopardy and to illustrate that i look back to 2018 really interesting tweet that i

have since kind of memorized almost which talks about the this website usa today and this gentleman gentlemen marcel went ahead and did a before and after performance audit by just removing a lot of junk from that website a lot of unnecessary javascript requests a lot of unnecessary downloads a lot of unnecessary craft and yes he did remove the gdpr banner but that's

not really entirely what's wrong with it so what he found is that before it would take an equinox 14 000 milliseconds so that's 14 seconds to get to the first paint of this uh usa to the website and after removing everything pretty much other than the text uh and we'll get into why this is concept of craft or additional js is important or not later in the presentation he found that he could bring

everything down to three seconds so he went uh from a load time of uh 45 seconds to three seconds so this is why i think the web is in jeopardy and by the way this was in 2018 but the situation has really not gotten a lot better since because if you look at the progression of key metrics like first content full paint and on load and largest content in full paint which is a metric that has emerged most

recently it's pretty much it's gotten better for sure but it's pretty much been a very slow improvement and when it comes down to metrics like first contentful paint and largest content for paint we don't see that big of a difference so we would hope and that's where that's what really this presentation is all about is i think we can make this a lot better but we need to understand the problem fully and we need to attack it in the best possible way with the best possible tools and with the best possible approaches

and before i go too much further i think something that perhaps not a lot of presentations go into which is this concept of what do we mean exactly by the web right like we obviously all talk about it but there's three properties that i think about when i think about the web that i would love personally to see improve and a lot of organizations and businesses and individuals i think throughout the world would love to see improvement one of the key things is that this web

is global so when we look at the data for um how things have changed in terms of performance over the past few years and we look at you know this orange bar line at the top we'll see that india is possibly you know twice as bad as for example south korea in this case um and interestingly enough india is where a lot of the growth is a lot of where the best tech companies and unicorns are being created it's where a