htmx or unpoly
Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?
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Re: Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?
#292Ignore any recommendation of React, TypeScript, Vite, or Tailwind. Here are some recommendations that don't require NPM/Node. Pick a "classless" CSS library from a site like CSSBed[1]. These are kind of like Bootstrap, except you don't need to write any CSS or apply any CSS classes in your HTML for them to work. No tooling necessary; just include a tag in your HTML document. If you'd like to try something similar to…
I looked through all the available styles from cssbed and quite a few did not have any styling for links that have already been clicked on. This seems weird to me. Why would you get rid of this styling? Sure, purple sticks out, but it's useful information when navigating a webpage (particularly when I'm trying to click every link in the list of styles to see what they all look like!).
Re: Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?
#293Backend: Django / Celery -
Front-end: TailwindCSS, daisyUI, HTMX, Hyperscript -
Devops: VS Code dev containers than I can duplicate easily between projects to keep configuration.
Re: Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?
#294Preact [0] + htm [1] Why? Preact is small, fast, and reasonably easy to use. But the main selling point for me was that, together with htm, I don't need any build system a la webpack. No node_modules folder. I just have to load one script (preact + htm bundled), define my components in plain javascript files and import them. Bliss for me. [0] https://preactjs.com/ [1] https://github.com/developit/htm Edit: Just read…
Glad to see this. I used Preact and htm to build a small, events-flying-everywhere app that helped me get my current job, which I love. https://github.com/spaceaardvark/react-control-chaos
Highly recommend.
Re: Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?
#295Please look at Svelte. It achieves straightforward abstractions and great speed by not having a virtual DOM. The syntax is also very pleasant.
Svelte should also be considered before React/Vue/Angular, because it's a generation ahead of all of them -- in many ways. The recommendations for React in here are no bueno unless you're just looking for the framework with the most job postings.