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The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app

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260 points gherkinnn | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 13:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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pier25 ◴[17 Nov 24 14:57 UTC] No.42164501[source]▶
> I like to argue that some of the most productive days of the web were the PHP and JQuery spaghetti days

I've wondered if going back to that paradigm would be more productive or not than using React et al.

Plenty of big sites like Amazon or Steam still are made this way. Not exactly PHP + jQuery but rendering HTML on the server and sprinkling some JS on top of it.

Has anyone gone back to working like that?

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1. kukkeliskuu ◴[17 Nov 24 18:54 UTC] No.42166069[source]▶
I am have several side projects, and they mostly follow this pattern. For one app, I developed around 100 views (plus the admin views) in Django in just a few months, I could have never done it if I was using a "modern" stack. In many applications most pages (login, registration, logout, entering data etc.) can be built using traditional server-side rendered HTML forms with a little Javascript sprinkled on top, and most of the JS can be handled by Alpine.js. For the pages that need more interactivity, I use HTMX and Alpine.js. It works really well.