[imnotreallynew]

Related question: what would the folks here recommend for someone that wants to keep the frontend “stupid simple” while not resorting to writing everything in pure HTML/CSS/JS?

I’ve heard mithril.js recommended before but I’ve yet to try it. I have experience with Angular, React, and a bit of Ember and the amount of code and “magic” involved is absurd.

[sibit]

Personally I've had great success with adding Web Components to server side rendered projects. It's really simple to just bind a class to the custom element and attach a few event listeners. If you need something a bit more complex rendered on the client side you can use mithril or similar libraries like lit-html. When I need to hydrate a state I JSON encode the model as a data-state attribute and I decode it when the Web Component's connectedCallback method fires.

[wildrhythms]

I've been enjoying building Web Components via lit-html for my recent projects:

https://lit.dev/docs/v1/lit-html/introduction/

[nfRfqX5n]

React is simple