[jeroenhd]

Loads just fine in my browser. I wonder what's causing this to fail for so many people. If I hold down F5, I do see the progress bar rise to 484%, but it loads in a flash for me. Maybe it's a bandwidth issue? The 4.5MB WASM file could've overwhelmed the website when it got slashdotted by the (many bots crawling the) HN front page.

These projects make a lot of sense, I think. You only write one system, not a separate frontend and backend, and let the middleware sort everything out.

The code rendering the plain HTML is the same code that re-renders the entire page when you switch to another page, without necessarily re-fetching data from the backend.

This is terrible for websites (ironically, like this website, which documents the framework), but great for web applications. Most native browser navigation is pretty jarring unless you add a bunch of javascript to hide navigation taking place, but if that frontend expands, you're pretty quickly building two systems (a frontend and a backend) to solve one problem.