Indeed just using vanilla js was something that occurred to me, or drawing clear boundaries around where things happen which it sounds like you've done here. In the end I decided it wasn't going to be long before I wanted to do some basic sorting or filtering or something of nontrivial objects on the client and that was where my brain decided it was more effort than it was worth for whatever I was trying to prototype.
I've largely settled at the moment on alpine multipage apps with traditional json rest APIs behind them and some light serverside templating for the initial loads, and the only thing so far that makes me reach for something heavier is if there's a lot of user-defined content and I want to feel confident of being able to run under a strict CSP.
But it sounds like you landed on something that makes sense as well so thanks for the explanation.
Indeed just using vanilla js was something that occurred to me, or drawing clear boundaries around where things happen which it sounds like you've done here. In the end I decided it wasn't going to be long before I wanted to do some basic sorting or filtering or something of nontrivial objects on the client and that was where my brain decided it was more effort than it was worth for whatever I was trying to prototype.
I've largely settled at the moment on alpine multipage apps with traditional json rest APIs behind them and some light serverside templating for the initial loads, and the only thing so far that makes me reach for something heavier is if there's a lot of user-defined content and I want to feel confident of being able to run under a strict CSP.
But it sounds like you landed on something that makes sense as well so thanks for the explanation.