Request for a (minimal) RSC Framework

Over the past two or so weeks I've been trying a number of different experiments to setup my ideal React Server Component framework. I've heavily used Next.js (both in the past and still actively for this blog at the time of writing), however I've wanted to branch out and try a few other solutions in the ecosystem.

However, I still haven't found something that offers the features that I'd really like from a framework. I figured I'd write up some of these thoughts and maybe nerd snipe someone into creating something that provides these features!

Requirements:

• Supports React Server Components (with Server Side Rendering)

  • There's been a number of discussions around the trade offs with RSC's vs traditional SSR or CSR apps, I feel like there's still enough benefits of RSC's

• Deployable on different runtimes

  • Not limited to Bun (for example), can deploy to Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, traditional serverless platforms, etc

• Flexibility with the underlying server framework (ideally hono as a default, but ability to swap it out with something else)

Features:

• Support for "page" and "route" handlers

• Filesystem based routing:

  • <path>.(page|route).(ts|tsx|js|jsx)
    • e.g. about.page.tsx renders the /about page
  • @not-found.(page|route).(ts|tsx|js|jsx) for 404-style routes
  • @error.(page|route).(ts|tsx|js|jsx) for 500-style routes

• Access to entire Request, Response, and context (HonoContext) values

  • Either from something like an AsyncLocalStore or as arguments/props to the handlers

• Support for Tailwind / bring your own favorite CSS framework

Example:

I've created (an obviously non-working) codebase showcasing these features, which I suppose could be used as an example by someone if they were to create a framework to support these features!

minimal-rsc-framework-demo.