[roguas]

We decided for fun to do a small project in htmx (we had to pick something, one person opted strongly). Yeah, I was cringing and still am. I fully support frontend/backend split status quo.

For stuff that is uncomplicated I much prefer svelte as it still keeps the wall between frontend/backend but let's you do a lot of "yolo frontend" that is shortlived and gets fixed. I run small startup on the side" svelte fe + clojure be. It works great as I have different acceptance for crap in frontend (if I can fix something with style="", I do and I don't care). I often hotfix a lot of stuff in front where I can and just deploy to return later and find better solution that involves some changes in backend.

I can't imagine that for moving a button I would have to do deployment dance for whole app that in my case has 3 components(where one is distributed and requires strict backwards compat).