I’ve been thinking back to my time as a core member of the original team that built the Twitter web app. I learned a great many lessons there and thinking through them: How would I rebuild something similar to the Twitter web app today, like a Mastodon or Activity Pub web client?

Dennis Chiroro

Erlang

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React Native for Web (RNW) is not a hit on performance directly, but it's still a bit too much of a shift and frankly the library is falling behind. For the most part now, all RNW is getting the team now is default styling, automatic LTR/RTL text direction swapping and some performance help under the hood.

Lessons learned: how I’d rebuild a social web app like Twitter today • Paul Armstrong

Solid-js or another non-virtual DOM framework

Split into multiple applications with module federation