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If you want a simple but powerful full-stack JS framework (literally, client and server are separated as they should be—no trickery) that is being built carefully and slowly, check out Joystick [1][2]. To put it in simple terms: if Next.js is the hare, Joystick is the tortoise.

It uses plain HTML, CSS, and JS for components (no React, Vue, Svelte, etc.—just simple components any skill-level can grok) in an easy-to-learn API and pairs that with a batteries-included Node.js back-end built on top of Express. The server automatically does old fashioned server-side rendering in routes (literally a callback function mapped to a URL pattern w/ req and res objects).

This is not "just another JS framework." I intentionally designed it to not behave like Next.js and other JS frameworks (I take "never trust the client" very, very seriously).

[1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick

[2] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick