I see, yeah, then your team is a different culture than me. To me simple server side rendering (well not literally concatenating strings, but using templating and the like) is basically the only non-”crazy nightmare” way to build web stuff. While a lot of React stuff (like hooks, reducers, hydration) gives me crazy nightmare vibes. But since this isn’t a programming forum, maybe not much use arguing :-)
Yeah, I care a lot about client-side reactivity, which I think you just can’t really achieve that way (unless you want to glue together javascript strings using templates, which I would not recommend).
I think people should just treat the web as an application platform. Doing a roundtrip for each piece of interactivity, or needing to pre-render each piece of interactivity is IMO really not viable at the complexity level of something like LW.
Yeah, this is maybe also about user taste. I use GW because it feels more like a website, while LW feels a bit too much like an application. There’s a certain “website UI feel” that’s distinct from “application UI feel” and makes me happier somehow. Though of course other people can feel differently.
I see, yeah, then your team is a different culture than me. To me simple server side rendering (well not literally concatenating strings, but using templating and the like) is basically the only non-”crazy nightmare” way to build web stuff. While a lot of React stuff (like hooks, reducers, hydration) gives me crazy nightmare vibes. But since this isn’t a programming forum, maybe not much use arguing :-)
Yeah, I care a lot about client-side reactivity, which I think you just can’t really achieve that way (unless you want to glue together javascript strings using templates, which I would not recommend).
I think people should just treat the web as an application platform. Doing a roundtrip for each piece of interactivity, or needing to pre-render each piece of interactivity is IMO really not viable at the complexity level of something like LW.
Yeah, this is maybe also about user taste. I use GW because it feels more like a website, while LW feels a bit too much like an application. There’s a certain “website UI feel” that’s distinct from “application UI feel” and makes me happier somehow. Though of course other people can feel differently.