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		enraged_camel on Feb 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over th... Yeah, I cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to develop AirBnb without some sort of front end framework. I used to write pure JS and jquery back in the day, and it was super easy to end up with a rat’s nest of spaghetti code. And those apps were several orders of magnitude less complex!

0xblinq on Feb 13, 2023 [–]

The alternative to SPA frameworks is not spaghetti jquery and vanilla js and full page reloads.

As mentioned everywhere around this thread, the way to do server side rendered apps has also evolved. Hotwire, htmx, Unpoly, Livewire, etc, etc, etc.

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