Abstract
The evolution of the web can be characterized as an emergence of frameworks paving the way from static websites to dynamic web applications. As the scope of web applications has grown, new technical challenges have emerged, leading to the need for new solutions. The latest of these developments is the rise of so-called disappearing web frameworks that question the axioms of earlier generations of web frameworks, providing benefits of the early web and simple static sites.
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Based on [23], 13.5% of developers use Next.js so that means roughly one out of four React developers use Next.js. For Nuxt.js, the figure is 3.8% which means roughly one out of six.
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By component-oriented abstractions, we mean a way to encapsulate markup and potentially local state so that it can be reused.
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The idea of disappearing frameworks is also in line with Transitional Web Applications (TWAs), where the key idea is to draw from both the traditional web and SPAs [5, 10] to build applications with the following characteristics: (1) static site rendering is utilized for fast initial loading times (2), resiliency is achieved by allowing applications to work without JavaScript by default, and (3) consistent experience and accessibility are built-in by definition [5].
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The latest ECMAScript standard supports this in the form of import() statement.
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Vepsäläinen, J., Hellas, A., Vuorimaa, P. (2023). The Rise of Disappearing Frameworks in Web Development. In: Garrigós, I., Murillo Rodríguez, J.M., Wimmer, M. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13893. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34444-2_23
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