Qwik: The Lightest, Fastest Way to Build Web Apps

This course introduces Qwik’s approach to building fast web applications through resumability and on-demand interactivity. It demonstrates Qwik’s loading model and compares it with hydration, React Server Components, Astro, and React migration workflows.

Syllabus

- Intro
- Comparing New Reddit with Old Reddit
- On Developer Experience
- Enter Qwik
- Demo: How Qwik Loads Interactivity on Demand
- Qwik's "Resumability" vs. Hydration
- Demo: Resumability
- Qwik vs. React Server Components
- Qwik vs. Astro and Partial Hydration/Island Architecture
- What if lazy loading fails?
- Migrating from React to Qwik
- Is there a Next.js Qwik equivalent?
- Conclusion