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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by troupe on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:23PM (#37201689)
Is this kind of what Vaadin does?
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by martinald on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:18PM (#37202579)
Hadn't actually heard of that. Might be similarish but Blazor uses standard html/css/JS and just sends DOM diffs down the wire. Don't think at first look Vaadin works in the same way.
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by troupe on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:20PM (#37203478)
Ah ok. So the server keeps track of what the client should look like and just keeps it up to date?

If so that sounds like a very nice model that would make it a lot easier to get back to just using simple HTML and delegate the complexity to the framework or server process. Are there other projects beside Blazor that use this type of approach?

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