Framework · 2020–2025 · Platform Wars
Remix
Web standards–first React framework with nested routes and forms. Merged into React Router; the ideas survived the brand.
How Remix mutated
Remix mutated because Shopify bought the team and folded loaders and actions into React Router Framework Mode. It failed as a standalone ecosystem against Next.js gravity. The web-form-first philosophy stuck; the separate npm package did not. TanStack Start took the "not Next" slot Remix used to occupy.
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Framework · 2013–now
React
Components and unidirectional data. Won the front-end by being good enough and having a gravitational ecosystem.
Framework · 2016–now
Next.js
React with routing, SSR, and deployment opinions — App Router gravity and vendor lock-in as the default web stack.
Framework · 2024–now
TanStack Start
Full-stack React on TanStack Router, Vite, and server functions — the typed alternative to Next's App Router gravity.