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Kaotique ◴[] No.42736637[source]
It is interesting, but I really dislike the way it tries to bash every other tech in the blog post, on the homepage and in the docs itself. The tone is very confident, but it will put you open to a lot of scrutiny.

Instead it could really use a lot more explanation on how it works. If you make comparisons make sure they are fair. The image "JavaScript mixed together" and "Strict separation of concerns" is just comparing apples with oranges. Multiple times in the docs it compares a huge complicated JSX like component and replaces it with 3 lines of html and 3 lines of css. I don't believe that it does the same thing.

Some of the claims are strange. It praises standard HTML but apparently you have to use some custom Markdown syntax to write it. How does that add up? And on top of that it also introduces new syntax for loops and variables.

This could all work perfectly fine. But my suggestion would be to talk more about how it works and what are the advantages and less trying to bring down competitors. It could use less grand claims and focus more on what it really does.

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tipiirai ◴[] No.42738672[source]
> it could really use a lot more explanation on how it works

How Nue works is _extensively_ documented:

https://nuejs.org/docs/

Most of these questions are also addressed in the FAQ:

https://nuejs.org/docs/faq.html

THe Markdown claim is also explained multiple times on this discussion

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internetter ◴[] No.42738848[source]
You could deploy HTMX on top of any static site generator and get literally the exact same experience? Your portrayal of any of this as 'novel' just comes across as naive. The technology already exists, I agree its underutilized, but this could have been an advocacy post instead of reinventing wheels that are already quite well made.
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tipiirai ◴[] No.42739066[source]
HTMX is more like "jQuery on steroids", but Nue is a frontend development framework with universal HMR support. Think Next.js but slimmer. Different tools for different needs.
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1. internetter ◴[] No.42739932[source]
hence why I said "on top of" a static site generator. By gluing some things together, you can get the same product.

You've done this gluing, sure, but surely at a cost to flexibility. You also didn't even glue, you just reimplemented the whole stack.