https://www.julianburr.de — Senior Engineer
15 years of experience building web apps and leading frontend teams; originally from Germany, currently living and working down under in Australia.
Pragmatic perfectionist, always looking for opportunities to learn and grow.
With the active TC39 proposal in play, I think it’s about time we talk about Signals.
Over the years, the concept has had many different names. From “observables” in KnockoutJS, to “refs” in VueJS, before Solid made “signals” popular. We’ve seen the carcinization of frontend frameworks in the pursuit of more seamless and fine-grained reactivity in our applications.
But what actually are Signals? Why do we keep coming back to them? And why is their potential adoption as a language standard such a big deal?
