Opt-in design: A new era in web development - Ben Holmes

Picking up a new technology, developers tend to stick with defaults. It's a fact all web development frameworks face, guiding the best features to include from "hello world" to production. At their worst, defaults ship hundreds of wasted kilobytes for routing, state, and other baggage you have yet to use. At their best, defaults give you a simple baseline to start from, with a clear path to add the exact set of features your project demands. This is the magic of "opt-in" design. Let's see how smart defaults guide modern frameworks from Astro to SolidJS, and why this new era reshapes your workflow, and performance metrics, for the better. About Ben Ben is an open source maintainer, teacher, and whiteboardist making the web a little better. You'll find him hacking on Astro or sharing bite-sized learnings on http://wtw.dev. Recorded live at Yext HQ in NY. Learn more at https://yext.com/