For the past several months I've been researching and experimenting with server-side rendering paradigms in F#. The recent server-side rendering trend (enhanced with things like Alpine and HTMX) has been interesting to me as it feels like a step forward for the already amazing Monolithic architecture - this time allowing you to reasonably move from 2 monoliths down to 1 for most applications.| hamy.xyz
I've been experimenting with different paradigms for server-side html rendering with F#.| hamy.xyz
HTMX is a tiny JS library that gives your HTML superpowers - allowing it to act more like a modern interactive app than a crufty old enterprise page. It does this by allowing you to swap out only bits of a page rather than requiring a full reload to change the UI (this is what those fancy clientside frameworks like Svelte, React, Vue, etc are doing under the hood to make them feel "modern"). This essentially means that you can build modern apps without any clientside framework - just you and ...| hamy.xyz