alt Hacker Newsweb dev is a sewer
All my projects are server rendered with jinja/minijinja, bootstrap, jQuery, and htmx when I need a little bit of SPA behavior on forms.
No builds, just static <script src= tags. Very fast and easy. I'll never recommend anything else.
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When I am given the choice to pick a stack, it is classical Java and .NET Web frameworks, with minimal JavaScript.
On hobby projects same script approach without any kind of build step.
With C#'s Blazor templating, you can ditch all JS logic, and use raw C# for all front-end logic, and have it all be transparently server rendered similar to how Phoenix has LiveView.
I also have experimented with HTMX and Django, and that seems to be a nice combination.
Everything is AJAX again.
Sounds more difficult then modern web frameworks. We've all done this for little projects, but anything with users or development teams, your method is DOA.
I'm coming back to Django after a decade of experience with it post-0.96 and having moved to Next.js a few years ago. Going from 1,700 dependencies to 65 total with Django + Wagtail + HTMX.