PostgREST + React.
Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
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Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#32I use janet-lang
The stack lately has been
- osprey (sinatra like framework)
- tailwindcss
- sqlite
- alpine.js
- turbo (from hotwire)
Memory usage is really low, so I can have quite a few websites on a single VPS
Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#33This partially might be more of a what's old is new again, but here's what I use: - 100% server side rendered - Progressively enhanced (fully works without JS, but having JS enabled makes it nicer) - In select places where I need SPA-like snappiness I use a ~100 line long DOM diffing algorithm (I request full HTML through AJAX and diff it into the current page; if the user has no JS enabled then the page just refresh…
What are “native data structures”?
Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#34I am working on two alternative tools for building web apps: https://htmx.org - uses HTML attributes and HTML-over-the-wire for AJAX/Web Socket/SSE interactions https://hyperscript.org - an experimental front end programming language derived from HyperTalk that is event-oriented and that removes the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code. Both tools are HTML-oriented and are designed to be embedded dir…
HyperScript is so cool. I’m seriously going to look at this after I was stuck in a pit of addEventListeners yesterday.
Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#35This partially might be more of a what's old is new again, but here's what I use: - 100% server side rendered - Progressively enhanced (fully works without JS, but having JS enabled makes it nicer) - In select places where I need SPA-like snappiness I use a ~100 line long DOM diffing algorithm (I request full HTML through AJAX and diff it into the current page; if the user has no JS enabled then the page just refresh…
What are “native data structures”?
Not OP, but we had a similar project long back. All data is in maps and structs. We didn't had free text search, all filters had a corresponding Map of key to []ids. A primary map from id to object. Needs lots of RAM, but that is the cheapest thing we can add
Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#36This partially might be more of a what's old is new again, but here's what I use: - 100% server side rendered - Progressively enhanced (fully works without JS, but having JS enabled makes it nicer) - In select places where I need SPA-like snappiness I use a ~100 line long DOM diffing algorithm (I request full HTML through AJAX and diff it into the current page; if the user has no JS enabled then the page just refresh…
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Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#37I am working on two alternative tools for building web apps: https://htmx.org - uses HTML attributes and HTML-over-the-wire for AJAX/Web Socket/SSE interactions https://hyperscript.org - an experimental front end programming language derived from HyperTalk that is event-oriented and that removes the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code. Both tools are HTML-oriented and are designed to be embedded dir…
I'm not sure what came first, but it's unfortunate that hyperscript.org clashes with hyperscript, the pure JavaScript notation to describe HTML.
Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#38Cannot recommend gqless highly enough for making graphql actually fun to use and closer to something like meteor/firebase syntax[0].
And I’ll self-promote, I’ve been working on what I consider to be a “next generation” style system for React that solves my biggest issue with it currently: being able to performantly write styles in a nice syntax that optimize for both web and native. Called SnackUI, still in beta[1]. It has an optimizing compiler that really speeds up React apps a ton, but still lets them run fully on native, even with themes and responsive queries.
I’ve been hacking on a cool project for the last year using the two of them and really believe in them both.
Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#39This partially might be more of a what's old is new again, but here's what I use: - 100% server side rendered - Progressively enhanced (fully works without JS, but having JS enabled makes it nicer) - In select places where I need SPA-like snappiness I use a ~100 line long DOM diffing algorithm (I request full HTML through AJAX and diff it into the current page; if the user has no JS enabled then the page just refresh…
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Re: Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
#40A while ago I created a simple website using an XML file as a storage technology and XSLT to render it to HTML. The data stored would be updated infrequently and suited a consistent format, making XML suitable for the job. Originally the site index file pointed to the XML file and the XSLT was rendered by the browser. This worked perfectly for a long time. Even though there was some technology to learn, it was a zero dependency, browser-native solution.
After a few years I decided to make everything completely static to facilitate some changes. It now uses lxml in a Python script to perform the XML transformation. This is run by a makefile and produces static HTML, which is then uploaded.
My blog (https://ajxs.me) is rendered using a static-site-generator I built myself in Python. Using Python template strings stored in HTML files to create a simple templating engine. The blog entries are written in HTML format and stored in an SQLite database loaded by the build script. The final output is entirely static HTML, not even any Javascript.
I'm experimenting with different formats for writing the entries themselves in, however I haven't found anything yet that gives me more simplicity and control than HTML. The LaTeX to HTML conversions I've tried were way too bloated and messy, and markdown doesn't seem to support the level of control I want. With HTML I have very granular control over the final output in the browser and can create whatever arbitrary content I need to.