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> the only technology we should be using to create web UI is JavaScript

No.



What do you prefer?

(I quite like ClojureScript.)


HTML, the language on the server


I prefer not to use JavaScript unless forced to do so. It's burdensome and almost always unnecessarily complicates the stack. With the rise of tools such as Turbo[1] and HTMX[2] the need for JS frameworks like React and Angular are greatly reduced, to the point that they are (almost?) unnecessary.

[1] https://turbo.hotwired.dev

[2] https://htmx.org


I'd always prefer React for when you have dedicated Front-end developers but for small go projects, gomponents with its htmx add-on does wonders.


We've been using the Dioxus library for Rust at my company and it's worked well. There's other Rust WASM web UI frameworks as well.


Blazor

yes, I am THAT guy...


That's worse than using plain JS.


How so?


Uhhhh, HTML?


Flutter




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