Hey HN, this is a side project that we made after realizing that a solid chunk of the time and code spent doing full-stack development was spent writing and deb

Hey HN, this is a side project that we made after realizing that a solid chunk of the time and code spent doing full-stack development was spent writing and debugging RPC layers - REST, GraphQL, GRPC, you name it. The fact that the frontend and the backend are separate services leads to a bunch of cruft (https://thume.ca/2020/05/17/pipes-kill-productivity/ https://thume.ca/2020/05/17/pipes-kill-productivity/ is a perfect description) and security holes, so we had the idea of merging them. It turns out that Phoenix LiveView already did server-side execution with changes streamed over WebSockets, but we weren't the biggest fans of having to learn an entirely new ecosystem and paradigm. So, we built a framework that allows (at the moment, admittedly simple) vanilla React apps to run on Node.js, with DOM updates being streamed to the client. That way, we can delete the RPC layer and greatly reduce development complexity and total code. Would love to hear your thoughts!