Build a task tracker with SolidJS and TypeScript
Blog post from LogRocket
SolidJS is gaining popularity in the web development community due to its effective state management, fine-grained reactivity, and high performance, offering solutions to challenges faced by React developers. This article provides a step-by-step guide to building a task tracker using Solid, emphasizing its straightforward approach to global state management without the need for complex setups or third-party libraries. Solid employs JSX for managing UI logic and compiles directly to JavaScript, eliminating the need for a virtual DOM and enhancing speed compared to frameworks like React and Angular. The tutorial details setting up a Solid app with TypeScript, using Vite as the build tool and pnpm for package management, and demonstrates the process of creating and managing state, adding and deleting tasks, and updating task status using Solid's createSignal and createStore hooks. Despite its growing popularity, Solid's ecosystem is still developing, which may pose challenges in finding specific functionalities or integrations, but the community is responsive, aiding in problem-solving. The article concludes by highlighting the advantages of using Solid and offers additional resources, such as GitHub repositories and a YouTube crash course, for further learning.