Htmx is a nice library to know about that makes frontend = backend. Include strategic js (htmx.js) to not write any more js and compose an interactive website/application in HTML only. Use your favorite back end to create routes that return partial HTML that is swapped in on event triggers (transclusion).

Ngl, most of the fastest web spas I’ve seen were using nuxt.js. Performant react web applications are rare… But honestly, the usability of the web overall is in the gutter. I’ve spent these last few days watching people frustrate themselves over broken web application forms (for banks especially).

A CSS and HTML expert in the art is a marvel. Think less development and more engineering. The process of speedily assembling the minimum set of markup and style with maximum degrees of freedom. Like you know, a bassist can develop a new playing style, but there’s an engineering path where it’s perfected. OpenUI might end eternal widget development hell?

Can’t beat the hunch that once web components get widespread application there’ll be something like “micro apps”. Interoperable components between all js frameworks or something.