Why platform companies keep buying frontend framework teams
The news of Cloudflare acquiring the company behind Astro is just the latest in a string of similar frontend framework deals. We look at the risks and rewards.
The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project—zachleat.com
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Eleventy
Eleventy (abbreviated 11ty) is an open source JavaScript based static site generator that allows the user to select their own preferred template engine and theme, which in practice can and does enable use of microformats2.
Why platform companies keep buying frontend framework teams - Richard MacManus
Late last week, the global cloud platform Cloudflare acquired the company behind Astro, one of the leading frontend frameworks. This follows a pattern of popular frameworks coming under the umbrella of platform companies — or at least becoming financially supported by them. This trend perhaps began in 2021, when Vercel hired Svelte creator Rich Harris. ... Read more
The Indie, Open Source JavaScript Frameworks Developers Love, and the Risks of Commercial Relationships
The frontend community is abuzz about the recently announced partnership between Vercel and Astro. This is not the first highly publicized relationship between an infrastructure platform targeted to frontend developers, and an indie, open source (OSS) Javascript (JS) framework. In addition to Vercel and Astro, Shopify announced its partnership with Remix in 2022, and this
Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0
An Eleventy blog post published on December 2023.