SolidJS Creator on Fine-Grained Reactivity as Next Frontier

Solid plans to introduce a new primitive to its reactive architecture, according to a talk by SolidJS creator Ryan Carniato at JSNation last week.

There are two reasons why this matters: First, Carnatio, a leader in the framework space, is demonstrating what he sees as the future for all JavaScript frameworks in terms of expanding their capabilities; and second, as Solid goes, others sometimes follow, as we saw with Signals adoption in Angular and Preact.

Carniato explained signals as “like a spreadsheet,” where a normal assignment…