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   phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 22:50:41 JST phiofx

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   • Emacsen

   @emacsen I suspect react was developed because facebook (meta) did not own any hardware devices so didn't have full control of distribution of apps and associated user data. They did the second best: ship an entire interactive app over the web.

   Its a tribute to the power and flexibility of the web paradigm that you can do this. But like so many other aspects of digital tech, these decades of #bigtech dominance have solved their problems, not ours.

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     Emacsen (emacsen@emacsen.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 22:50:42 JST Emacsen

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     What I didn't take into account was all the duplicate work maintaining two seats of interfaces, and the issues of language interchange.

     htmx lets me develop code in traditional web frameworks again, and that's such a relief!

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     Emacsen (emacsen@emacsen.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 22:50:43 JST Emacsen

     I think what I really like about htmx is that it presents a clear separation of concerns to the developer.

     I remember when web applications were CGI programs and then they moved to web applications. Zope and Turbogears were my first real environments for this.

     When I first learned about single page web applications it was with Backbone.js, and then later React.

     I thought these were the right approach because they separated concerns, but....

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