[godot]

I like it a lot, and I see from the source you're coding in vanilla js, which is awesome. It's underrated how much of an interactive web app you can build without using any libraries or frameworks nowadays.

I actually also really like the idea of building simple/local web apps in a single HTML page. A while ago my child and I visited a science museum and played with a simple stop motion animator. I decided to make a web app just like it and built it as a single HTML page, copied it to her laptop and she can use it without internet. I built it using React and a bundler though, because I'm too lazy to write vanilla js. It just bundles into a single HTML file. Maybe I'll post a Show HN some time.

[kristopolous]

really, just like we had a "you don't need jquery for that" we need a "you don't need react (or vue, or svelte, or whatever else you are thinking) for that."

plain, vanilla js and some decent skills will do nearly almost everything in a cleaner and more maintainable way.

after decades of maintaining other people's stuff, dumb design by smart people beats all the other combinations.

[johnecheck]

The downside, of course, is needing to code in JavaScript.

[kristopolous]

Just learn it right. I'm tired of people fighting it because they think they can learn it by intuition and then create monstrosities that are easily solved by the language they refused to understand properly in the first place.

[jasonjmcghee]

As opposed to? You can use typescript and compile too. And/or still bundle with esbuild

[memhole]

I like this about quarto. You can create a standalone html file and share with people.