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React Server Components Now in RedwoodJS

by mojombo on 3/26/24, 2:35 PM with 10 comments

• by notryanquinn on 3/26/24, 11:53 PM

  Cool to see this live now! A lot of things start falling into place once RSC get implemented. Been using Redwood since v1 and started using in production since v3 now a year and a half ago and it’s been awesome framework and community to interact with. Opinionated flexibility.

• by mojombo on 3/26/24, 2:47 PM

  Hey, Tom Preston-Werner, co-creator of RedwoodJS here. We've been working hard on React Server Components support in RedwoodJS and really happy to finally have a bare-bones working implementation ready!

  Redwood is a framework for quickly creating React-based web applications that provide an amazing end user experience. Our goal is to be simple and approachable enough for use in prototypes and hackathons, but performant and comprehensive enough to evolve into your next startup.

  Until now we've focused on SPAs with GraphQL for data fetching. But this new era of RSCs allows us to offer a streamlined data fetching model that helps you iterate much faster. We still offer first class GraphQL API tooling for when you need it, but it's an optional add-on.

  Happy to answer any questions you may have!

• by orta on 3/26/24, 3:00 PM

  I built Puzzmo.com on RedwoodJS, and have been working in Redwood everyday now for about 2.5 years. It's got a solid set of principles and it's gonna be cool to see where they take it with this simpler model for building sites.

• by hamishirving on 3/26/24, 2:51 PM

  Great news, well done to all involved, love Redwood

• by selfteachme on 3/26/24, 2:38 PM

  I'm so excited about this and that there's finally an alternative to Next.js's implementation.

• by Kriscoulson on 3/26/24, 4:13 PM

  Excited for this! More frameworks with RSC support is a great thing for react!

• by adriatic on 3/27/24, 1:51 AM

  I am watching and using RedwoodJS since its early beginning and it never disappointed me. A few highlights:

  - Besides high quality code, it also provides one of the very best technical documentation set.

  - The core team and management consistently demonstrate patience needed to deliver a world class software.

  - I concur with keithtelliott that "to be simple and approachable enough for use in prototypes and hackathons" is one of the RedwoodJS strongest suits.

• by standup75 on 3/26/24, 10:59 PM

  Congratulations on the milestone!