alt Hacker NewsCan we please go back to template-based server rendering (e.g. JSP, PHP, ASP, Handlebars/Mustache) and use JS for user interactivity only? Tired of seeing this cycle play out with a new framework every 5-6 years.
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JSX is easily the most productive templating language out there, I fail to see your point.
What’s stopping you from using those?
I have good news: all that you mention is still available and ready for you to use! It has not been deprecated in any form and as far as I know it has not been made illegal.
If, instead, you wanted to say "can everyone please use the things I like?", I'm sorry but that's not how it works. You don't get to tell people what they should do just because you're "tired".
I was on the same boat, coming from Django, but having used JSX, I absolutely love it, to the point that I try to use JSX in Vue and Django
There are benefits to having the same type system throughout a code base. Also Typescript is a really nice language.
The other issue is, many websites are basically apps. The HTML is a byproduct, it isn't the main event. The template based systems are fine if you have mostly plain HTML with some interactivity sprinkled in, but for people who are building complex web apps, there is typically a tiny bit of HTML and a lot of logic.
The old template based systems fall to pieces for really complicated sites.
In regards to language, if you are going to pick a JITed or interpreted language, may as well pick one that has had a lot of effort put into making it fast, and the JS runtimes are really optimized by now. Java is faster, but Typescript is a much better language (and more type safe!) than Java.