Why is there a need for another framework? the current approach is not producing fast sites, and this problem will not disappear by waiting for a faster CPU.

Foreword

Qwik in Action

Introduction to the frontend development. Now, the responsibility of creating good or bad applications depends on you because the means available are all there.

Introduction

Overview of TypeScript. TypeScript introduced types into an untyped language like Javascript to ensure code consistency.

TypeScript

Overview of the frontend architectures. In this lesson you will understand the difference from Client Side Rendering and Multi Page Application.

Frontend architectures

Overview of the hydration. In this lesson you will understand the difference from Hydration and Island architecture/Partial Hydration.

Hydration

React Server Component. In this lesson you will understand the difference from Server Component and Client Component.

React Server Component

Qwik resumability will change the frontend ecosystem, In this lesson you will understand why is so great.

Resumability, the Qwik way

Wrap up of frontend architectures module.

Summary Chapter 2

In this lesson you will be able to understand more about performance and you will understand how improve your application with less JavaScript.

Qwik, the framework built on top of closure-extraction

Resumability is the core concept behind Qwik. In this lesson you will understand better the process.

Resumability

Code Extraction is a topic hard to master, you will understand how it works with different approaches.

Code Extraction

JSX syntax is the most famous one because of React, but what about the other frameworks, Vue, Angular?

Why Qwik use JSX syntax

Summary Chapter 3

Let's see together the fundamentals of Qwik. In this lesson you will compare Webpack and Vite.

Getting started with Qwik

The Qwik build process is so important because the resumability process requires correct and intelligent bundling.

Qwik compilation Process

Qwik CLI and amazing tool to have a great Developer Experience with Qwik.

Technical requirements to start a new Qwik application

Qwik Middleware an easy and clever way to expose your RESTful APIs or GraphQL APIs.

Middleware

Wrap up of Getting Started with Qwik module.

Summary Chapter 4

In this lesson you will learn the pillars of SEO. You will lean few new terms and metrics that can help you to measure your application.

In this lesson you will learn the some new things about SEO and crawler.

Sitemap and robots files

Partytown an amazing library to execute third scripts in the service worker.

Partytown

Core Web Vitals are so important for own application. You will learn in detail all the metrics.

Core Web Vitals

Core Web Vitals Labs Data vs Field Data. These two information are so different, let's figure out the peculiarity of those.

Labs data vs Field data

Summary Chapter 5

SEO and Core Web Vitals

There are many ways to deploy a Qwik application. You can have your own server and deploy your Qwik application easily with the Qwik CLI and integrations.

Deploy Qwik in production

Cloud solution are a good alternative for a low cost pipeline and host. Nowadays these kind of services are so smart and great, you should try them.

Cloud solutions

With different team and many developers, it's important to master branching strategies to avoid problems during your day by day.

Branching strategies

Progressive Web App approach can be an alternative to the stores. You can publish you application with a lot of benefit with PWA.

Progressive Web App

Wrap up of Deploy Qwik in Production module.

Summary Chapter 6

Style an application is so important let's see how engage your Stakeholders into this process.

Style and render data with Qwik

CSS is so huge, there are a lot of ways to style your application with Qwik, let's see them together.

CSS and Built-In Styling Methods

Tailwind is an amazing library, let's see together how master it. I will share you some tips and tricks to use Tailwind in a better way.

Tailwind CSS

In this lesson you will learn how manage data with Qwik. There are a lot of APIs to explore, let's jump into the code.

Managing data with Qwik

Summary Chapter 7

In this lesson you will learn how architect a modern frontend end application.

Creating an e-commerce with Qwik and Supabase

In this lesson you will learn the trade offs of technical decisions. I share with you some tips and tricks.

Technological spike

In this lesson you will explore Supabase. This is an amazing service to leverage your business.

Supabase for your backend

A custom authentication is too complex and risky to implement from scratch. Let's use the Supabase auth to optimize our goals.

Let's talk about the Authentication process

Summary Chapter 8

Supabase CLI an handy tool to improve consistency across environments.

Supabase CLI

Let's use the Supabase CLI to manage our database migrations and schemas.

Supabase db migrations

In this lesson you will create the e-commerce homepage with the Supabase client to read the data.

Show products on our homepage

Every e-commerce has a detail page, let's create our product detail page with Qwik.

Product Detail

Cache is really useful and in this lesson I will explain in the detail how it works. I will share my experience in this topic with some cool analogies.

Cache-control headers

Summary Chapter 9

Rendering products with Orama full text search

Let's improve out application with a useful "Add to favorites" feature.

Add a product to your favorites list

In this lesson you will learn how to use Stripe to manage your payments in a secure way.

Adding cart and checkout process with Stripe

Let's try the Supabase database function. This is an easy way to allows us to do several things and also add some logic to our procedure.

Page views tracking

A real-time database with Supabase is so simple to implement, let's build together a new functionality with this great feature.

Real-time database

Summary Chapter 10

Let's explore together the benefit of testing. In this lesson you will explore the various types of tests, Unit Test, E2E, Visual regression tests and more.

Overview of application testing

Let's discuss together how and when testing is valuable for our business. 3X Explore/Expand/Extract can help us is this reasoning.

How much testing is enough? When do I write tests?

In this lesson you will lean the Test driven development TDD flow. It's a really good practice to put in place.

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

In this lesson you will lean how test your components with Cypress.

Let's add some tests with Cypress

Do you need a Qwik component library? Qwik UI is the project for you because can give you a lot of Qwik accessible components out of the box.

Qwik UI

Summary Chapter 11

Adding tests to our Qwik application

Let's explore a bit of history of Qwik. A new framework with a great past.

Final thoughts

Qwik and React together, no problem, qwikify$ is the API to solve your problems.

qwikify$

Qwik and Astro together, no problem, @qwikdev/astro is the library to solve your problems.

Qwik inside Astro application

Qwik and micro-frontends together, no problem, out of the box Qwik can manage this scenario with no external dependencies.

Micro-frontends with Qwik

Summary chapter 12

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Complete Guide to Qwik

Technical Requirements to Start a New Qwik Application

Now that the reasons for Qwik's uniqueness and the benefits it offers have been explained let's delve into the technical requirements for setting up a Qwik application on a workstation.

Getting started with Qwik is a straightforward process. The following tools are necessary:

Since Qwik is built on TypeScript, familiarity with this language is essential. TypeScript enhances JavaScript with types and various other features. To gain a deeper understanding of TypeScript, reading 

You can use JavaScript for your Qwik application, but TypeScript is the preferred way.

In the past, structuring a web application involved writing everything from scratch and struggling to find the correct configuration for different libraries. Fortunately, this has changed, and it is now expected for every tool to have a command line interface (CLI) feature.

Creating a Qwik application is a simple process. The Qwik CLI needs to be executed in the shell. Qwik supports various package managers, allowing you to choose your preferred one and run one of the following commands:

npm create qwik@latest
# or
pnpm create qwik@latest
# or
yarn create qwik
# or
bun create qwik@latest

The Qwik CLI will provide guidance through an interactive menu. It will prompt you to specify the folder where you want to create the application, select one of the available starters (Empty App, Basic App, etc.), and decide whether to install the dependencies and initialize a git repository. Once these steps are completed, you will be ready to proceed.

, the framework with its primitives and logic, and 

, the library responsible for managing routing, middleware, and more. Both packages are maintained and managed by the Qwik team.

While it is possible to use Qwik without Qwik City and manually handle routing, it is not the most efficient approach. It is recommended to follow the standard approach and utilize Qwik City.

By default, the project is configured with Prettier and some 

 for code formatting using the default settings. The same applies to ESLint, which is configured with recommended settings for TypeScript and a special plugin called 

, developed and maintained by the Qwik team. This plugin enables you to standardize the syntax of your application according to official rules, ensuring that you can utilize Qwik to its full potential. It provides warnings to assist you in resolving any issues and standardizing your code in the most effective manner.

When dependencies are installed in our projects using 

 folder is created for each project. These folders can occupy a significant amount of disk space, potentially reducing the available free space. There are npm packages available, such as 

, that allow you to remove these folders from various projects via the command line, freeing up space.

, this issue can be permanently resolved. pnpm takes a different approach by creating the 

 folder during dependency installation. Instead of downloading the necessary files within the project, it downloads the dependencies into a global cache. Within the project, it establishes symbolic links between folders to reference the dependencies. If a dependency already exists in the local directory, it will not be downloaded again.

For instance, if we download the latest version of TypeScript, it will be downloaded into the global cache. If another project requires the same version of TypeScript, it will reuse the package from the cache. This simple management technique saves disk space and download time, as we often work on similar projects with the same technologies, resulting in dependencies that are already present in our system. Even if we delete the 

 folder and reinstall everything, no downloads will be performed because the dependencies are already available in the global cache.

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title: Technical requirements to start a new Qwik application
description: Qwik CLI and amazing tool to have a great Developer Experience with Qwik.
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# Technical Requirements to Start a New Qwik Application

Now that the reasons for Qwik's uniqueness and the benefits it offers have been explained let's delve into the technical requirements for setting up a Qwik application on a workstation.

Getting started with Qwik is a straightforward process. The following tools are necessary:

-   Node.js v20.12.2 or higher
-   A preferred IDE (VSCode is recommended)

Since Qwik is built on TypeScript, familiarity with this language is essential. TypeScript enhances JavaScript with types and various other features. To gain a deeper understanding of TypeScript, reading ["Beginners Guide to TypeScript"](https://www.newline.co/beginners-guide-to-typescript) by Christian Santos is recommended.

> You can use JavaScript for your Qwik application, but TypeScript is the preferred way.

## Creating a New Project with Qwik CLI

In the past, structuring a web application involved writing everything from scratch and struggling to find the correct configuration for different libraries. Fortunately, this has changed, and it is now expected for every tool to have a command line interface (CLI) feature.

Creating a Qwik application is a simple process. The Qwik CLI needs to be executed in the shell. Qwik supports various package managers, allowing you to choose your preferred one and run one of the following commands:

```shell
npm create qwik@latest
# or
pnpm create qwik@latest
# or
yarn create qwik
# or
bun create qwik@latest
```

The Qwik CLI will provide guidance through an interactive menu. It will prompt you to specify the folder where you want to create the application, select one of the available starters (Empty App, Basic App, etc.), and decide whether to install the dependencies and initialize a git repository. Once these steps are completed, you will be ready to proceed.

The installed packages will include `Qwik`, the framework with its primitives and logic, and `Qwik City`, the library responsible for managing routing, middleware, and more. Both packages are maintained and managed by the Qwik team.

While it is possible to use Qwik without Qwik City and manually handle routing, it is not the most efficient approach. It is recommended to follow the standard approach and utilize Qwik City.

By default, the project is configured with Prettier and some `npm scripts` for code formatting using the default settings. The same applies to ESLint, which is configured with recommended settings for TypeScript and a special plugin called `eslint-plugin-qwik`, developed and maintained by the Qwik team. This plugin enables you to standardize the syntax of your application according to official rules, ensuring that you can utilize Qwik to its full potential. It provides warnings to assist you in resolving any issues and standardizing your code in the most effective manner.

## npm vs pnpm

When dependencies are installed in our projects using `npm`, a `node_modules` folder is created for each project. These folders can occupy a significant amount of disk space, potentially reducing the available free space. There are npm packages available, such as [npkill](https://www.npmjs.com/package/npkill), that allow you to remove these folders from various projects via the command line, freeing up space.

However, with the introduction of `pnpm`, this issue can be permanently resolved. pnpm takes a different approach by creating the `node_modules` folder during dependency installation. Instead of downloading the necessary files within the project, it downloads the dependencies into a global cache. Within the project, it establishes symbolic links between folders to reference the dependencies. If a dependency already exists in the local directory, it will not be downloaded again.

For instance, if we download the latest version of TypeScript, it will be downloaded into the global cache. If another project requires the same version of TypeScript, it will reuse the package from the cache. This simple management technique saves disk space and download time, as we often work on similar projects with the same technologies, resulting in dependencies that are already present in our system. Even if we delete the `node_modules` folder and reinstall everything, no downloads will be performed because the dependencies are already available in the global cache.

## Understanding the Directory Structure

Qwik supports files that return JSX (such as .tsx) as well as files that allow you to write Markdown (such as .md and .mdx). Markdown is a markup language with plain text syntax that can be converted to HTML and other formats. It is commonly used for formatting README files, writing forum messages, and creating formatted text using a simple text editor. It is also convenient for creating documentation pages due to its simplicity.