I want to rewrite the GCP console with HTML, using their api and not one damn line of JS.
IT's such a joy to spin up servers and work in that UX compared to GCP and AWS !! Scaleway had a good one a few year back, but now every page feels like a "marketing flyer" that screams BUY-ME all the time :/
Some of these problems are because of frontend cruft (perhaps with the goal of nudging users towards APIs) to be sure. But plenty of them are due to the reality that the cloud providers' backends often do not, ironically, work very well at scale.
On a professional level, the requirements may mostly be for a basic CRUD app but it will have a few requirements for interactive or real-time features that are not possible with a static html crud app. The client is not going to want to hear your hacker news spiel about how JavaScript has ruined the internet. Now you’ve got to embed mini SPAs into your static html, and you’ve increased the complexity past what it would have been had you just used a SPA in the first place.
This is not limited to personal projects. I can’t recall more than a single project I’ve worked on during the last decade where front-end code was really useful. Some cool stuff, ok, but never worth the pain.
I acknowledge it can be useful. For some real time project. Not for your crud-for-a-living.