Dev Agrawal

@devagrawal09

He/Him Content Creator Core team, @solid_js Core team, @ripple_ts youtube.com/@devagr twitch.tv/devagrawal099

Wichita, KS

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Joined December 2012

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Dev Agrawal
@devagrawal09
Apr 13
AI isn't going to "eat up" anything. SaaS App stores Frameworks Higher level abstractions Frontend Product design Nothing is going away. Everything is changing. But the fundamentals are more important than ever. Stop with the fear mongering. It just makes you look dumb.
Dev Agrawal
@devagrawal09
10h
In an era where people often talk about performance in extremely vague and hand-wavy manner Solid ensures that there are highly strict and transparent processes to ensure there are no regressions and your users get the absolute best experience possible, regardless of hardware.
Dev Agrawal
@devagrawal09
10h
Solid 2.0 didn't just get faster, it got a system that measures. New reactive engine, O(1) dependency revalidation, rebuilt store engine, and CI gates that fail the build. Reconcile: 3.2 → 0.22 ms. Hydrating bundles without stores: 22.6 → 15.83 KB
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Everything Solid 2.0 Made Faster
Solid was already the fast framework. It is also the framework that measures. Before the 2.0 release candidate shipped, the repository grew an infrastructure you might not expect to find in a UI...
Dev Agrawal
@devagrawal09
10h
Solid 2.0 didn't just get faster, it got a system that measures. New reactive engine, O(1) dependency revalidation, rebuilt store engine, and CI gates that fail the build. Reconcile: 3.2 → 0.22 ms. Hydrating bundles without stores: 22.6 → 15.83 KB
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Everything Solid 2.0 Made Faster
Solid was already the fast framework. It is also the framework that measures. Before the 2.0 release candidate shipped, the repository grew an infrastructure you might not expect to find in a UI...
Dev Agrawal
@devagrawal09
14h
It wasn't even my idea to include the Cursor migration story in this post AI itself did the research, found the post, saw the diff numbers, and decided to include it and use it as evidence for complexity Your Agents don't want to use React
Dev Agrawal
@devagrawal09
Aug 16
The most famous AI tool migrated Solid to React with an agent: +266K/−193K edits. That direction is easy. React's model makes the author hold all the complexity; Solid's graph holds it for you. React asks you to predict. Solid asks you to read.
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Solid 2.0 for React Developers: The Migration Cursor's Agent Already Did
Cursor's engineering blog has a post about long-running coding agents (Scaling Agents). In it, they describe an experiment: Another experiment was doing an in-place migration of Solid to React in the...
Dev Agrawal
@devagrawal09
16h
If you are using Solid and are running into issues with performance and maintainability, please reach out to us and help us improve Solid for everyone! It's gonna cost you a lot fewer tokens I promise!
lauren
@poteto
Aug 17
Much love to the Solid team and congrats on launching Solid 2! Cursor has largely completed this migration from Solid to React. We also have since converted all our scss and Tailwind to @stylexjs, in both Cursor and in @bot. The new agents window is 99% React, with a few