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HOWl is a good idea.. either it will catch on and make web development fun again, or it will at least force the JS ecosystem to wake up and fix its terrible too

HOWl is a good idea.. either it will catch on and make web development fun again, or it will at least force the JS ecosystem to wake up and fix its terrible tooling and bloat.

rezonant 5y ago
I hear this a lot and I have to wonder if people have used JS tooling lately. When targetting the web all I need is `npm install`, `ng new`, `ng serve` and `ng build`. I have no idea what Webpack version or plugins or Sass compiler is in use, and I never need to modify it. It is productive, fast, easy to use, and powerful. For REST APIs one can use Nest.js or so to get a similar experience.
- naasking 5y ago
  HOWI is about using backends other than JS. That's not as trivial to integrate.
hu3 5y ago
what's "HOWl"?
- recursivedoubts 5y ago
  Hypermedia On Whatever you'd Like: use a more powerful version of HTML/hypermedia (e.g. htmx, unpoly or hotwire.dev), minimize your front end javascript, and with it the pressure to adopt javascript on the back end. This frees you to choose "Whatever you'd Like" for your back end language, without the "two codebases/two languages" problem inherent if you go with an SPA framework and a non-js backend language.
  - hu3 5y ago
    Thanks!