web dev is a sewer

All my projects are server rendered with jinja/minijinja, bootstrap, jQuery, and htmx when I need a little bit of SPA behavior on forms.

No builds, just static <script src= tags. Very fast and easy. I'll never recommend anything else.

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nicksergeant 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm coming back to Django after a decade of experience with it post-0.96 and having moved to Next.js a few years ago. Going from 1,700 dependencies to 65 total with Django + Wagtail + HTMX.

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pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I am given the choice to pick a stack, it is classical Java and .NET Web frameworks, with minimal JavaScript.

On hobby projects same script approach without any kind of build step.

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bastardoperator an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sounds more difficult then modern web frameworks. We've all done this for little projects, but anything with users or development teams, your method is DOA.

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giancarlostoro 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

With C#'s Blazor templating, you can ditch all JS logic, and use raw C# for all front-end logic, and have it all be transparently server rendered similar to how Phoenix has LiveView.

I also have experimented with HTMX and Django, and that seems to be a nice combination.

Everything is AJAX again.

	▲	CharlieDigital 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've a C# fanboy, but Blazor's DX just isn't very good compared to say Vite. There are many conditions under which the hot reload just straight up crashes out regularly.