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World Congress 2023 • Aug 11, 2023

Building for the Edge - Crafting a Next-Gen Framework

Daniel Roe

Rethink traditional Node servers. Combine Nitro, Vue, and Vite to architect a custom edge framework. You can achieve sub-two-millisecond cold starts.

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#1 about 5 min

Rethinking web framework architecture for edge server environments

How modern web deployment requires fast-starting and heavily optimized serverless execution engines.

#2 about 4 min

Initializing a basic backend with universal application tooling

Starting a new framework project by configuring the build engine and setting up typed endpoints.

#3 about 7 min

Integrating components for server-side rendering and application routing

Configuring bundler plugins to process component files and utilizing memory history for backend endpoint routing.

#4 about 5 min

Running dev servers for client hydration and development mode

Hooking up a modern bundler in middleware mode through a lazy handler to provide client-side interactivity.

#5 about 5 min

Building a framework command line interface for development

Abstracting configuration parsing and logic execution into dedicated console commands using lightweight standard libraries.

#6 about 6 min

Managing production builds and runtime framework asset bundling

Orchestrating build steps to combine client assets and snapshot markup templates directly into runtime memory.

#7 about 5 min

Handling form submissions via isomorphic network data fetching

Sending client-side data natively to internal server endpoints using a unified network response wrapper.

#8 about 6 min

Deploying the custom framework to edge hosting providers

Leveraging zero-configuration platform detection to seamlessly host the generated application bundle on global networks.

#9 about 3 min

Discussing platform standards and open source project maintainability

How the underlying foundation avoids breaking changes and collaborates with specification groups on server component logic.

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