Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?

Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? by akpa1 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @04:56AM (#32789004)

HTMX is incredible, I adore it. Typically, my stack for a web app is a Golang webserver using Fiber[0], HTMX, SCSS, my own (experimental) templating engine [1] and SQLite. It's a sufficiently hype-free stack, in my opinion, and one that's been fairly well battle tested (bar the templates) and is pretty simple. It's a joy to use!

[0]: https://github.com/gofiber/fiber

[1]: https://github.com/codemicro/go-neon

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Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? by iamgopal on Saturday September 10, 2022 @05:19AM (#32789089)

Goneon looks interesting.

Is it trying to provide compatibility with quick templates etc or aim to reach jinja level features parity ?

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Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? by akpa1 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @05:27AM (#32789117)

The aim is to be just as functionally similar to QuickTemplate, though not compatible.

I like the idea of QuickTemplate a lot but the I find it lacking and annoying to use in various ways. For example, I find its syntax is annoying to write, I don't like having to re-declare the types of my variables whenever I use them and it's error reporting is near useless.

Currently, Neon is just barely at MVP. I'm dogfooding it and adding to it as I find I need things.

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Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? by iamgopal on Saturday September 10, 2022 @05:32AM (#32789139)

Try to release boiler plate template that uses these tech, if possible and convenient.

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Re:Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? by akpa1 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @05:35AM (#32789151)

Good idea! I'll remember that for when Neon is suitable for people other than myself to use, thanks :)

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