Long Ho

wrote about why “metaframework is dead” feels true rn. not bc frameworks are useless, but bc @OpenAIDevs Codex + @claudeai Claude Code make explicit scaffolding cheap. i’d rather codegen real routes/contracts than hide more runtime magic. longho.dev/posts/the-meta…

A package is a distribution boundary. Use package names for code that leaves the monorepo. Use root imports for internal source. Enforce architecture with visibility/lint rules, not fake package.json files everywhere. longho.dev/posts/a-packag…

Last part is up: a frontend build system is product infrastructure. @bazelbuild gives you precision, but teams still need rule APIs, codegen, docs, good errors, metrics, and gradual adoption so the graph stays usable. longho.dev/posts/part-8-o…

Part 7 is up: @bazelbuild, @turborepo , and @NxDevTools are not one ladder. Turbo runs package tasks. Nx models projects. Bazel models actions and artifacts. The right choice depends on where your repo’s complexity already lives. longho.dev/posts/part-7-b…

Part 6 is up: a successful bundle is not the same as a correct artifact. Use @bazelbuild to verify built outputs, then make deploys consume those verified artifacts instead of rediscovering files from the working tree. longho.dev/posts/part-6-v…

Part 5 is up: @bazelbuild should not replace Vite. Bazel decides what the app needs; Vite turns it into a bundle. Apps, SDKs, tests, Storybook, assets, and output checks all become explicit graph edges. longho.dev/posts/part-5-a…

Part 4 is up: some frontend inputs are graph questions. Translations, icons, routes, and generated TS packages get cleaner when @bazelbuild can model them as named artifacts instead of side effects. longho.dev/posts/part-4-t…

Part 3 is up: typechecking is not one giant tsc --noEmit. Split runtime, test, config, generated, and lint contracts so @bazelbuild can catch dependency leaks where they happen. longho.dev/posts/part-3-t…

Part 2 is up: frontend packages are rarely just TypeScript folders. This one breaks down runtime code, tests, stories, config, assets, visibility, and codegen as separate build surfaces so @bazelbuild can rebuild less and explain more. longho.dev/posts/part-2-t…

Part 1 of my series on @bazelbuild for large frontend monorepos. At scale, the hard question is not “how do we build the app?” It is “what did this change affect?” longho.dev/posts/part-1-w…

@kentcdodds RSC comes with a huge amount of footguns. Literally the 1st thing we did when I joined PPLX. longho.dev/posts/rsc-serv…

Ok, I've had enough of this. I'm relieved that I never actually adopted RSC and at this point I'm convinced I never will. I'm now firmly in the camp of "RSC was a bad idea." The problems weren't made up. But this solution is not good.

Just wrote a piece a long hiatus medium.com/p/product-plat…

formatjs, now supporting svelte Formatter, linter, CLI, the whole thing formatjs.github.io/docs/svelte-in…

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@jasonbosco Would formatjs be eligible for Typesense Cloud-sponsored plan?

@longlho You can self-host Typesense for free on any Linux VPS. On Typesense Cloud, where we host the infra, we've sponsored Typesense clusters for a handful of OSS projects where there might be mutual overlap of audience.

@jasonbosco does TypeSense offer free plan for OSS projects?

@boshen_c the oxfmt binary on GH release seems to have way less capabilities than oxfmt package on npm. Is that intentional?

@boshen_c So event sourcing basically?

I spent the last couple of days trying to come up with a better architecture for oxc minifier with Claude, nothings clicks ... until ... redux

@boshen_c Nice thanks for the fast fix! Btw we just ported our icu messageformat parser to Rust. Is there a way to write custom oxlint in rust or nah?

@longlho Nice bug. package.json contributors is an array of objects in the schema #people-fields-author-contributors" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/config… It accidentally nullified strings to nulls. I'll fix it by removing sorting entirely because the order often has a priority.

Oxfmt -> formatjs github.com/formatjs/forma…