Fast
The adaptive interface system for modern web experiences.
Overview
The FAST monorepo is a collection of technologies built on Web Components and modern Web Standards. It offers reusable UI components, design systems, SSR capabilities, and integration with various libraries and frameworks. FAST can be adopted incrementally without rewriting existing systems.
Features
- @microsoft/fast-element: Lightweight library for building performant and standards-compliant Web Components.
- @microsoft/fast-foundation: Library of Web Component classes, templates, and utilities for design systems.
- @microsoft/fast-ssr: NodeJS solution for rendering FAST templates and components, supports server-side rendering.
- @microsoft/fast-router: Web Components router for building SPAs and rich experiences.
- @microsoft/fast-react-wrapper: Allows React users to turn any Web Component into a native React component.
- Integration with any library, framework, or build system.
- Reusable components based on W3C Web Component standards.
- W3C OpenUI-based design systems without re-implementing component logic.
- Modern, standards-based SSR for Web Components.
Summary
The FAST monorepo is a comprehensive collection of technologies and libraries for building scalable and efficient web and application designs. It provides reusable UI components, design systems, server-side rendering, and integration capabilities. With FAST, developers can adopt modern web standards and quickly develop high-quality experiences without the need for extensive rewriting or reimplementation.
- Express
Express.js is a simple Node.js framework for single, multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Vite
Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects
- UI Kits & Components
A UI kit provides developers with a set of reusable components that can be easily integrated into a website or application. These components are pre-designed with consistent styling and functionality, allowing developers to save time and effort in the design and development process. UI kits can be either custom-built or third-party, and often include components for buttons, forms, typography, icons, and more.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Rollup
RollupJS is a popular and efficient JavaScript module bundler that takes the code from multiple modules and packages them into a single optimized file, minimizing the overall size of the application and improving its performance.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
- Web Components
Web components provide a way to create reusable, encapsulated UI components using standard web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They allow developers to create complex UI components that can be easily shared across multiple projects and frameworks. Web components are built using four main specifications: Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, HTML Templates, and ES Modules.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.