A Case for Both
Lit and React both have a place in the web toolbelt, but each solves different problems for different teams.
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Progressive Enhancement and Web Components
Now that web components have gained more traction over the last few years (used by companies like Salesforce, Github, and Adobe), we should explore how web components can offer progressive enhancement to applications without the bloat of JavaScript frameworks.
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UnConference: Beyond the React-ion
The modern web landscape is evolving fast. React continues to dominate, but is it always the right choice? The Sparkbox team recently hosted an UnConference to talk about web standards, progressive enhancement, and React’s role in the modern web ecosystem.
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JSX Beyond React: An Intro to SolidJS
JSX makes building UIs easier, but not all frameworks handle it the same. Discover how React and SolidJS take different paths to rendering, state management, and performance.
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The Landscape Beyond React
While React gets a lot of attention in web development circles, it is far from the only option for building scalable user interfaces for the web.
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The React Rendering Landscape in 2025
Modern React applications provide increasing flexibility in how content is rendered, allowing developers to optimize for performance, scalability, and user experience. Let’s explore the latest advancements shaping the future of React development.
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Why Sparkbox Loves TypeScript
Support and adoption of TypeScript has grown exponentially in the last few years. Companies and products like Netflix, Airbnb, Slack, and Lyft, just to name a few, all utilize TypeScript in their applications.
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Relaunching Sparkbox.com
Learn how Sparkbox avoided the “cobbler’s children have no shoes” problem with updates to its website and the Foundry.
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Rendering Markdown in Contentful Rich Text
As we are migrating The Foundry’s CMS to Contentful, it doesn’t come without challenges to ensure that we are able to have all the styles currently used. Learn how we are balancing different solutions to do just that like rendering markdown in the rich text editor.
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Rethinking Null
Null is often treated as a useful representation of no data, but maybe we should rethink this. As one Sparkboxer was learning more about Rust, they discovered that the best way to handle null should be to configure it as a fail state as early as possible.
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