Best of eCommerce — November 2024
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Josh tried coding·2y
My Favorite Open-Source Next.js Project for 2024
A deep dive into an open-source Next.js project that showcases techniques for extreme website speed and performance. The project utilizes partial pre-rendering, aggressive prefetching, and aggressive caching, among other strategies, to achieve nearly instant navigation and image loading. The author explains how these methods can be implemented in other projects, highlighting the trade-offs involved, such as increased infrastructure load and limitations on dynamic content.
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developedbyed·2y
Build Full Stack Apps With This Remix Visual IDE
Codex is a new visual IDE designed for React development that provides a graphical interface for managing components, styling, and contents, similar to Figma. It supports full stack development with Remix, enabling the creation of comprehensive applications like e-commerce sites. Codex offers templates, drag-and-drop functionality, and integration with Wix headless services for managing checkouts and payments.
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David Heinemeier Hansson·2y
Joining the Shopify board of directors
Shopify's co-founder Tobi has revolutionized e-commerce by demonstrating the scalability of Ruby on Rails through the development of Shopify's platform. With over 131 contributions to Rails and the engineering of essential tools such as Active Merchant and the Liquid templating system, Tobi's innovations have enabled Shopify to support a large portion of online sales efficiently. The author eagerly joins Shopify's board to tackle challenges at a much larger scale than their current work.
