[tekkk]

I got a wave of shudder reading the acronym "HAM stack". Yugh. MEAN, MERN, RERN–once hyped up hot air which now sounds so dated and hackneyed. It's cool to be excited about tech but if your main selling point is building "faster and cheaper", I don't know if picking up a minimalistic framework you know nothing about is faster than just re-using your trusty boilerplate.

Be it React or Svelte or whatever. With serverless backend if you want to keep costs down. Although a server from Hetzner isn't that expensive and you can host multiple APIs there.

[purerandomness]

> I don't know if picking up a minimalistic framework you know nothing about is faster

That's the whole point of HTMX: Going back to what works: trusty old HTML attributes, but giving them intuitive interactions.

Instead of learning the microframework du jour, you just add some attributes into your HTML templates, and get your desired result.

[tacker2000]

The problem is not the server cost, the problem is maintaining the (multiple) APIs altogether.

[wavemode]

cute stack names have gone downhill since LAMP

[mekster]

Since when did LAMP go down? Maybe only Apache is getting less popular but still has no problem.