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Jon Johnson
@jon.dag.dev

Today I suggested that we serve HTML over HTTP for our website frontend instead of using React and everyone laughed because they thought I was doing a bit. The frontend situation is so dire.

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Jon Johnson
@jon.dag.dev

I need a name for the phenomenon where your tower of abstraction overflows and everything cancels out and you are basically doing the exact thing the lower level was designed to do but now it's 4 orders of magnitude slower.

Daniel Mangum
@danielmangum.com

Just keep saying we should do it on the server for the next couple of years and then as soon as people start agreeing with you, switch to saying we should do it on the client. Become a thought leader with this one weird trick.

ralph b
@the-rook.bsky.social

That being said - I actually think we're back on the server side rendering upswing again. There is a ton of JS fatigue around and with how powerful and usable options like Turbo (Rails) or LiveViews (Phoenix) are... there's really no point to have that front/back disconnect.