> At first I was reaching for JS and this feels good—total control! But I wanted to challenge myself to use a hypermedia based approach, and in the end the outc

> At first I was reaching for JS and this feels good—total control! But I wanted to challenge myself to use a hypermedia based approach, and in the end the outcome felt better. I've built a search page that used meilisearch as backend and a simple "SPA" in vanilla JS once. It was completely "Hypermedia based" because I stored all the state of search/facets/pagination for the SPA in the URL(query args). A URL is limited in what it can store, but its a neat storage for state, especially because it's limited :) Then if you landed on a page with certain query args, the state would be rebuilt from that, and the request to meilisearch would be constructed from this "state", sent there, and the objects in the response would be the state for the results.