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Maybe it’s the changing interest rates or political winds, but I think the “fat client” era JS-heavy frontends is on its way out. This is just not going to be
by bloomingkales 2y ago
Maybe it’s the changing interest rates or political winds, but I think the “fat client” era JS-heavy frontends is on its way out.
This is just not going to be true. It’s an AI world and we need to funnel so much high velocity text and dynamic UIs to provide a high fidelity experience.
Investing in static server rendered pages is just a surrender, the long surrender that people desperately seek from the onslaught of JavaScript.
But it won’t happen, it will either be JS or another language, but server side pages is the wrong bet.
- kellysutton 2y agoI'd encourage you to spend an afternoon kicking the tires on Turbo/StimulusJS, HTMX, Laravel Livewire, or Phoenix LiveView!
- SrslyJosh 2y ago[flagged]
- thomasfromcdnjs 2y agoI can't agree with the quoted sentiment either. Even I attempt to remove all my bias, most of the tools I use to work (app developer) are fat javascript clients.
- bloomingkales 2y agoYeah. There’s been a little bit of a puritanical pursuit back out of SPA on HN (it might actually be isolated to here honestly, almost like a local band that plays in the neighborhood), but it’s an emotional over correction (imho) to the exhausting JS climate. Nevertheless, the facts on the ground are the facts on the ground.
- remram 2y ago[flagged]