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I find it more than a bit sad because the thin client means a system with retains almost all capability on the server. This is closer to conventional software where users have only what powers are offered on the screen. That's a #rfc8890 violation. The internet is for end users.

or you can bake the data in your html 🤯

This is exactly the premise of my new HTML-first web framework, transclude. Get back to basics with HTML, CSS and the occasional script. transclude.dev

Had the same thought! Conclusion almost feels self defeating.

I always liked this approach. Fewer build steps just means less to go wrong.

The only team at work that does it is the one using PHP, others all use angular, react, or vue (except that one java project I started in 2015 with handlebars-java; they added jQuery to it at some point)