okay, take two on writing through this devlog since stardance just consumed my writing since it went over the word limit…

i did a lot of work since my last devlog with the UI, from view transitions to SSR to SEO to wrestling with build tools and broken npm packges. i don’t have the energy to write through everything again but i do have this demo that shows off just how cool view transitions are, the speed of SSR (though i had to make it cold start, which again i can’t be bothered to write about why a second time), and graceful degradation for javascript-less environments. next up i’m working on some housekeeping stuff with sorting tailwind classes, then formatting the search page, wiring up view transitions between the search page and product pages, more DOM optimization with better solid.js state management, and maybe adding tanstack virtualizer (though it’s kinda overkill, but allows me to just set every image to eagerly load) and keeping support for no-JS.

please stardance team could you fix entries getting sent into the void i wrote a really good devlog entry the first time around…