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Building WebApps That Light Up the Internet with QwikCity

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Building instant-on web applications at scale have been elusive. Real-world sites need tracking, analytics, and complex user interfaces and interactions. We always start with the best intentions but end up with a less-than-ideal site.

QwikCity is a new meta-framework that allows you to build large-scale applications with constant startup-up performance. We will look at how to build a QwikCity application and what makes it unique. The workshop will show you how to set up a QwikCitp project. How routing works with layout. The demo application will fetch data and present it to the user in an editable form. And finally, how one can use authentication. All of the basic parts for any large-scale applications.

Along the way, we will also look at what makes Qwik unique, and how resumability enables constant startup performance no matter the application complexity.

This workshop has been presented at JSNation 2023, check out the latest edition of this JavaScript Conference.

FAQ

Quick is a project developed by Misko Hevery and the team at Builder.io. It aims to improve website performance by reducing the amount of JavaScript that needs to be executed, thereby enhancing user experience and Core Web Vitals scores.

Existing websites often suffer from poor performance due to the heavy use of JavaScript. Quick aims to solve this problem by designing a framework that only loads JavaScript as needed, rather than overwhelming the browser with all the code at once. This improves website performance and user experience.

Party Town is a project for running third-party code like Google Analytics inside web workers. Mitoses allows you to create design systems and components that can be translated into all major frameworks, such as React, Angular, and Quick web components.

Core Web Vitals are metrics created by Google to measure the performance of websites. These metrics are used to encourage the creation of faster and more interactive websites by providing a PageSpeed score and Lighthouse score.

Quick improves website performance by breaking up the application into smaller pieces and only loading the necessary JavaScript as needed. This reduces the amount of JavaScript that needs to be executed, making the website faster and more responsive.

In Quick, JavaScript only loads when it is required. For example, if you have a counter component, the JavaScript for the counter will only load when the user interacts with it, rather than loading all the JavaScript upfront.

Quick has a variety of integrations, including deployment platforms like Cloudflare, Netlify, and Vercel, as well as tools like Cypress for testing, Storybook, Prisma for database ORM, Tailwind, and more. It also supports running React components within Quick.

Misko Hevery is the CTO of Builder.io. He has also worked on projects like Angular JS, Karma, and now focuses on a project called Quick.

Builder.io is a headless visual CMS that allows users to design websites using a drag-and-drop editor. It enables marketing teams to make changes to the website without needing to constantly involve the engineering department. The CMS runs on your infrastructure, allowing you to register your own components.

Route loaders in Quick allow you to fetch data on both the server and client sides, providing a unified mental model for data fetching. Actions, on the other hand, enable you to perform server-side operations like authentication and updating databases, even allowing forms to work without JavaScript.

Miško Hevery

170 min

12 Jun, 2023

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