The Open Web Panel

[Music] Aloha everyone. Aloha friends. My name is Cap. I am the head of developer community here at Verscell. I see a lot of my friends in the crowd. Hi everyone. So we run the open source program at Verscell and I know that the open source community is very important subject to many of you here today. So bringing the creators andor builders of Nex.js, spelt and next on stage was something that really mattered to me because I know it matters to you. And in all honesty, when

Verscell when spelt and Nexlabs joined Verscell, I know it sparked both excitement and curiosity. People started asking what does this mean for the future of my f my favorite framework. So I wanted to create space during this conference to hear directly from the folks behind these tools to ask them about the future about open source at Verscell and the web in general and maybe we'll find out some fun facts about these builders. So this panel is about transparency, curiosity, and celebrating open source. I always say it, but the world runs on open source.

So let's chat with some of the builders in this community. So let's bring to stage Tim Newton's from Next.js, Rich Harris from Spelt, and Sebastian Chopen from Next to the stage. [Applause] All right. So, we have Tim, Rich, and Sebastian, all builders of frameworks we use and love. Who's using one of these frameworks? Next, next.

Nice. So, let's start with intros. Could each of you introduce yourself, what your role is in the particular framework, and give us a sentence that captures your framework for someone that's new to it? That's good. Hey, I'm Tim. I uh uh work on next chess mostly uh nowadays tech lead uh but yeah started uh next chess together with uh Garm. Nice. Rich. Yeah. Uh I'm I'm Rich. I have been working on spelt for the last nine

years. Working at Vel for the last four of those years. There's a team of three of us who work full-time on the framework within Vel. I manage that team. Um the the pitch I mean if I was being cheeky I would say react without the BS but this is next comp so um I have to watch my words. Uh it's a way of building resilient and accessible web apps um more easily than than with alternative tools. It's a framework but it's also a compiler and a language. Um you should check it out.

And I'm Sebastian Shopan the author of Nux. I joined Versel with Nuxlab's acquisition three months ago. Um if I have to compare uh if you use NexJS uh I guess you are here. Um NexGS is the Vue alternative and we have maybe more feature less feature. Uh this is a matter of taste. I highly recommend you to check it out. Um, with my team, we're

also working on Nitro, which is the server part we extracted uh two years ago with NX 3 that is now compatible uh that you can use as a backend framework, but also use it as a vit plug-in if some of you are using VIT. So, you said nine years. Next is also at nine years. And what's next at? Uh, nine years as well. It was really the 26th of October uh 2016. Awesome. So why did you build it? Why did you build next? Yeah, I was making an e-commerce website

with Vue. GS and serverside rendering. Back then Vue2 was not there. It was in 2015. So I was using pre-rendering with a headless browser. And then I was following GMO and I saw the announcement of Nex.js and I gave myself the challenge to do the same for view and a week later I had the first prototype working. Oh, that's cool. What about you, Rich? Why'd you start spelt? Uh, guilt partly. Okay. Um, it's actually my my second front-end