Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
Wow - lots of opinions on front-end dev. Not much of a surprise. It is a bloated mess. But "breaking up with JavaScript"? There's no way to build anything useful without JavaScript.<p>Build it without frameworks? Absolutely! Build with HTMX? Makes sense to me. It's a light-weight and isolated extension. It would be great if such partial load semantics was added to the web standard.<p>Isn't the core question whether the web client is stateless or not?<p>My front ends have been very stateful for long time. But I build desktop equivalent web apps. I jumped on the AJAX track in 2000 and never looked back. My state has been represented in XML ever since. I sync with server via "updategram" semantics (borrowed from SQLXML), and transform state into HTML with XSLT in the browser. I use no frameworks or libraries/ Has served me very well for 20 years and likely will until retirement.