[Feb 2020]: First announced.
[Apr 2020]: First alpha release.
[Feb 2021]: First beta release.
[Dec 2021]: Decided to do major pivot.
Today the Blitz.js 2.0 pivot to a modular Next.js toolkit reached Beta status [1]
Previously Blitz abstracted Next.js, but Blitz 2.0 is now a modular toolkit that plugs into any new or existing Next.js app. Blitz picks up where Next.js leaves off, providing libraries and conventions for shipping and scaling small to large apps.
When I first created Blitz, my aim was to have an all-in-one fullstack framework for Javascript like Ruby on Rails. But that proved to be too difficult. I've decided that achieving an all-in-one framework for JS like Rails is too difficult unless you have a ton of funding and don't have to make meaningful money.
The difference with JS is that client-side frameworks like React have an incredible amount of complexity. Trying to manage all of that and all the other fullstack framework stuff like API layers, auth, file uploads, etc is too large of scope.
So now Blitz is no longer trying to do it all and is focusing on all the non-frontend functionality you need to ship web apps.
Going forward, we want to be the most trusted technical resource for rapidly building and scaling full-stack TypeScript apps.
Thank you! It's still early for Flightcontrol and we have so much to improve. But we already have a non-trivial amount of production customers (including some very high traffic sites) and solid monthly growth.
We're planning to switch pricing to tiers. Psychologically 30% sounds like a lot, although the end price is quite low. For example we have a site with close to 10 million requests per month with heavy server compute. Their cost is about AWS $300/mo and Flightcontrol $90/month.
It’s commoditized and a race to the bottom and a rounding error for AWS spend to wipeout everyone in the space and it might be a good business, it’s getting harder to differentiate, and …?
Not that it’s going to happen. But there’s a plethora of obvious risks.
BTW - to the author of FC, this is not directed against you. I hope you do well. And I’m really excited for the revised vision - I actually joined the Discord today.
[Feb 2020]: First announced. [Apr 2020]: First alpha release. [Feb 2021]: First beta release. [Dec 2021]: Decided to do major pivot.
Today the Blitz.js 2.0 pivot to a modular Next.js toolkit reached Beta status [1]
Previously Blitz abstracted Next.js, but Blitz 2.0 is now a modular toolkit that plugs into any new or existing Next.js app. Blitz picks up where Next.js leaves off, providing libraries and conventions for shipping and scaling small to large apps.
When I first created Blitz, my aim was to have an all-in-one fullstack framework for Javascript like Ruby on Rails. But that proved to be too difficult. I've decided that achieving an all-in-one framework for JS like Rails is too difficult unless you have a ton of funding and don't have to make meaningful money.
The difference with JS is that client-side frameworks like React have an incredible amount of complexity. Trying to manage all of that and all the other fullstack framework stuff like API layers, auth, file uploads, etc is too large of scope.
So now Blitz is no longer trying to do it all and is focusing on all the non-frontend functionality you need to ship web apps.
Going forward, we want to be the most trusted technical resource for rapidly building and scaling full-stack TypeScript apps.
[1] https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.1