Remix

Remix¹ is a full-stack framework built on top of a popular React routing framework. It places an emphasis on the user interface; it’s router allows developers to create nested interfaces, each with their own layer of interactivity. Additionally, it leverages server-side rendering with support for traditional web standards, to allow it to even work in browsers without JavaScript.

Comparison

Each of the requirements is scored on a scale from 1 (very poor) to 5 (very good).

Target use

Score: 5. Remix broadly targets interactive websites and applications.

Client-side interactivity

Score: 5. Once the initial load is complete, a Remix application behaves as a single-page application and renders client-side.

Data transmission

Score: 4. Remix makes it easy to use loaders to put information into the interface, and actions to update data from the interface.

Server-side rendering

Score: 5. Remix focuses heavily on web fundamentals and is built around server-side rendering.

TypeScript support

Score: 5. Remix is largely written in TypeScript itself and provides excellent built-in support. New projects created with their tool use TypeScript by default.

Local deployment

Score: 4. It is easy to create a production build of the application, which can then be used with Remix’s basic app server or another Node.js HTTP server using an adapter.

Ease of use

Score: 4. Because Remix puts an emphasis on web standards, understanding of those can get one quite far. There are still concepts that you need to get used to, such as the nested routes, but the documentation is clear and helpful.

Community

Score: 3. Remix has a Discord server with quite a large active community, as well as a GitHub discussions page where questions can be answered. Answers on StackOverflow are more difficult to find: there are not many questions, and many remain unanswered.