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Get rid of the assumption of "frontend first" and most of the complication of web development disappears instantaneously.

Something I am appreciating about Svelte/Kit and Phoenix is that they are admitting what was right about PHP and server-rendered webpages. I'm a frontend engineer and think that SPAs have their place, but frontend JS represents a kind of tyranny seen nowhere else in tech.




Its really hard to find proper learning materials to get started with the backend; its all a bunch of shortcuts glued together because the tutorial really wants to show you how to make a react frontend first and foremost.


Phoenix, do you mean the Elixir web framework? I had thought it was Elixir's counterpart to Rails.


Phoenix liveview is server rendered interactive websites.




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