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by sir_pepe 729 days ago
Fortunately it is very easy to opt out of all of this. Nothing stops you from having a backed deliver HTML and then sprinkle some basic JS and CSS on top. In theory at least, in practice everybody's brain has been smashed to bits by repeatedly colliding with the hype train. But the old approaches still work, even better than in the old days (thanks to improvements to all the relevant standards).
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Well yes, but people do write for resumes, not for anything else. For quality we would live in another world.
Yep. And there's also Phoenix, Rails, and Htmx.