An Open Letter To React | Prime Reacts

As ive aged ive realized that simplicity is always the best policy.

Call me crazy, but.... put the server on the server, put the client on the client. When the lines between them blur, it is hard for devs to reason about them properly.

future is PWA with Typed Languages compiled to WebAssembly.

@0:30 It is called "safety-pin", maybe not popular in your country but it is offten crucial part of small metal badges you can pin to cloths. Separately it is used to hold two part of clothes with secure but disconnetable bond.

Complecting? Simple and easy? Did Prime watch "Simply Made Easy" by Rich Hickey before that? Where's that video? :D

I just love using HTMX - Alpine frontend and fastpai backend combo

Yeah I started playing around with HTMX today, it seems like the only sensible way to handle the client right now. Absolutely brilliant design.

How easy old technology failures has been forgotten, like GWT and many similar technologies were written and fall back in the day.

I feel like for average devs HTMX has the potential to be more secure because it's a simple paradigm. I'd rather have a house with one door and a crappy lock than a house with 100 doors each with a good lock. It also says nothing about security which to means it won't get in the way of whatever solution you choose to set up.

Pre-2000s web development was only simpler in the sense that a hammer is a simple saw. It's your only tool and you effectively can't cut wood, so you bodge together scraps in the hopes you can get something to crudely work. Even a React "Hello World" app would seem like magic back in 1996. So, now instead of struggling to write a trivial app which is nearly useless, we struggle to write a reasonably complex app which is actually useful to users.