I've started writing up a coding guide for hypermedia-driven application architectures. #htmx
It's very much a work in progress. Some bits not started yet. But I'm quite happy with some of it...
https://hda.daz.is/architecture/why-hypermedia-driven-architecture/
More to come some!
#React is an obsolete tech and hopefully my guide, when done, will help people who want to switch to #HDA architecture from #spa
Hopefully the #Rust won't put people off.
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"HTML-embedded attributes (such as htmx’s hx-get, hx-post, hx-swap) drive dynamic behaviour. The developer declares what should happen in the markup rather than writing imperative JavaScript to manage requests, state, and DOM updates."
https://hda.daz.is/architecture/why-hypermedia-driven-architecture/
There's a lot here that's beyond my lay knowledge of how any of this works, but so much of your explanation feels intuitively *right*. This bit in particular, made me go "yes!".
Also this, especially the last sentence, yes, yes, yes!
"The key mechanism is partial page replacement. When the user interacts with an element, the browser sends an HTTP request and receives an HTML fragment. That fragment replaces a targeted region of the DOM. The server controls what the user sees next, because the server produces the HTML. The client is a rendering engine, not an application runtime."
https://hda.daz.is/architecture/why-hypermedia-driven-architecture/
So @daz, do you think the HDA architecture could be used in a rewrite of fediverse.party?
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/
I recently inherited stewardship responsibility, despite having only participated in the project as a researcher. So I don't really know how the guts of the site works. But I get the impression it has npm dependencies, which is something I want to avoid for all the reasons you list in the section on Supply Chain Attacks here;
@daz
> looks like a static site? all generated offline
Embarrassing to admit but true, I don't have the first clue.
> Unless I missed some interactive/SPA features?
There are some mildly interactive features, like the tickboxes here;
https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/
and the FediQuiz;
