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I have been developing lately with A django/HTMX stack[0]. It covers a lot of the positives of JS SPA, without the headache. Also, I get to use the Django super

• mwcampbell 5y ago
  I appreciate that Django is a good old full-stack server-side framework, and there's a lot to like about that. But I can't bring myself to start a new project with something that has the gross inefficiency of CPython (or, IIUC, stock Ruby), as discussed at, for example, [1] and [2]. I want a runtime environment that's efficient enough that I can deploy the web application on a couple of small VMs, still have plenty of headroom for load spikes (which, in my experience, are usually due to screwups on my part and not actual demand spikes), and delay thinking about scaling as long as possible. [1]: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/07/costly/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/07/costly/ [2]: https://blog.clubhouse.com/reining-in-the-thundering-herd-with-django-and-gunicorn/ https://blog.clubhouse.com/reining-in-the-thundering-herd-wi...
• harryvederci 5y ago
  Surprised htmx isn't mentioned more in the comments. I'm using it with Janet for a side project, really liking it so far. Writing server-side html with a hiccup-like library is very nice! :) (Clojure Hiccup library, similar libraries exist for other lisp-like languages: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup)