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0 pointslyu072821y ago0 comments

Wouldn't the equivalent be more like server components in react? Or do people literally let their backend render presentational html (including tailwind css or whatever)? Like do htmlx people render html from database resultsets in their backends?

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poncho_romero1y ago· 2 in thread

Why is it surprising that a backend returns HTML when it receives an HTTP request? That is the web

lyu07282OP1y ago

> Why is it surprising that a backend returns HTML when it receives an HTTP request? That is the web

We did that for a long time with Perl/PHP/ASP/JSP

I wonder why we stopped doing that? I'll just wait a few decades of your FE with this until you figure it out scnr

poncho_romero1y ago

I don't understand what you are trying to say here. Serving HTML directly from the backend works wonderfully for almost all websites and web apps. The growing popularity of solutions like HTMX, Hotwire, and Phoenix LiveView is proof that React is not the panacea that was promised. Why prepare JSON on the backend, send it over the wire, and have the frontend transform that data into HTML when the backend could just send HTML in the first place?

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