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Wow, that was so on point.

> Somewhere right now some poor developer inherits a Angular 1.1 project built with gulp.

That hit hard. I was reassigned to an old project from 5 years ago with an archaic framework, to refactor all the code to the "new shinny JS framework". Ironically, I was in the team that built it 5 years ago. It is dreadful. Rinse and repeat.

I feel like I'm doing something wrong when I advocate against projects that need 50,000 files and a 2-minute build when you could just do with HTML/CSS, native JavaScript and a simple CRUD backend.

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Thanks. Checkout htmx

https://htmx.org/

Dynamically update parts of your page but still render everything on the backend, where you already have all your data.

Pass HTML fragments back, like we did in the old days prior to the JSON hype, but let htmx do the fetch & swap work so you don’t have to, that is only repetitive anyways.

Now you hardly need jQuery (or similar) anymore either, Just HTML & CSS.

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Thank you tored, it even supports WebSockets :-)