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You no longer need JavaScript (for lots of stuff) (lyra.horse)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Personally I like using server side rendering when I can. The UI should be as light weight as possible and you can do a lot with just HTML and CSS. That said, it's pretty hard to build a responsive web app without at least a little bit of JavaScript.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm the other way around. For me, the UI can be chonky frameworks or whatever as long as the user experience is good and it works on lots of platforms.

    But keep every bit of UI out of my back-end systems. The data and business logic layers should be so divorced from the UI that they didn't even get visitation rights with the kids.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    That said, it's pretty hard to build a responsive web app without at least a little bit of JavaScript.

    Not really. You just need to learn the difference between width and max-width.
    I do UserCSS now and then and 2 of 3 sites use them wrong. That and position: fixed overuse. Also, use @media (min-width) only for layout changes, not for sizing.

    And also, functionality/layouting first, design after.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago

    That said, it’s pretty hard to build a responsive web app without at least a little bit of JavaScript.

    And then the question comes up, why would you need responsiveness. Auto-completion of search results? Hate that crap. Endless scroll with loading additional contents? Hate that crap. Everything blinking and whistling? I suppose JS in that case is possible, but purely for stylistic purposes and not functionality.

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