Re:Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework
by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @04:56PM
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VanJS can be used just fine without a build step, and I do so.
The first instructions in https://vanjs.org/start are for this.
in my limited exploring of VanJS so far, I like that it also takes the direction to simplify things. That said, afaik VanJS simplifies the "JSX" part (so: we don't have to transpile from JSX to vanilla JS because... we don't even use JSX :D).
For the target output (which we need to start the actual app), afais, VanJS still involves this build step: https://github.com/vanjs-org/vanjs-org.github.io/blob/master...
( we can see it being used from `package.json` at the "build" step: https://github.com/vanjs-org/vanjs-org.github.io/blob/master... )