yogthos OP , 9 months ago

Js isn’t the only options for making full stack apps though. For example, I’ve built lots of apps using Clojure and ClojureScript getting the same benefits, but using a much better language. There are a few languages nowadays that compile to Js, but have much cleaner semantics. I kind of see Js the same way as assembly nowadays, to me it’s a compile target.

Another option nowadays is to use something like HTMX and just treat the frontend as a dumb client that simply renders the UI and collects input. This works fine unless the app has a lot of interactivity, which is majority of sites out there. HTMX also has the advantage of having the whole state in one place, and avoids the need for all the plumbing to ship data to the client via AJAX or GQL.