1. React
  2. React Rally
  3. 2019
  4. Frontend Application Bundles: The Docker of Frontend

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Frontend Application Bundles: The Docker of Frontend

Glen gives a fascinating talk on container technology and how that translates to the frontend.

Glen Maddern at React Rally 2019

Frontend apps are on the cusp of a revolution—React is about to launch a streaming server renderer that massively improves performance on both low-end and high-end devices. It's a new dawn for performance & accessibility, but raises another question. How should we host the server component? Can we do that without vendor lock-in? Enter FABs, a portable, compact, immutable, server-side JS format that lets you deploy anything from static sites or Next.js to full custom server-rendered React apps anywhere that can run JS, like Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Now, etc. Come check it out!