NectarJS VS htmx

The first google result for "JS to binary" was this: https://github.com/NerdLang/nerd, you might try to give it a spin. However these kinds of solutions come with a lot of caveats as of how to handle stdio, memory, and many other things that other languages, such as C and Go, handle natively as part of their stdlib...

for anyone else interested in approaches to this here's another abandoned attempt to transpile js to c https://github.com/NectarJS/nectarjs

The question is just whether there's sufficient purpose and value for that. https://github.com/NectarJS/nectarjs

Rails/Ruby performance has improved:

https://medium.com/retention-science/ruby-is-still-a-diamond...

Alhough, compiling Javascript to binary makes code even faster https://nectar.js.org , although I wish that project would get more love with bugfixes https://github.com/NectarJS/nectarjs/issues

Technically speaking, this is bollocks. You can compile javascript to machine code for Windows, Mac, and Linux if you so choose, there is even a compiler for arduino, which quite obviously does not and cannot run a javascript interpreter. The point is that, in our modern world, there is no such thing as a scripting language. Virtually any language can be compiled to bytecode to run in the Java JVM, and many (even surprising ones like javascript) can be compiled AOT to native machine code.

Object pascal to JS? Why not just write JS directly? Can you leverage Lazarus? For JS to WASM, there's NectarJs https://github.com/NectarJS/nectarjs but docs appear to be nonexistent :(

HTMX is another library that gained popularity due to its server-first approach to rendering data, although seeking a much simpler way of appealing to developers.

When I work with HTMX I need isolated component that can be reusable a form. So I create a PHP Function that generate the Input Datalist.

I was inspired by htmz (which was in turn inspired by htmx) and how the author got pretty close to a basic htmx-like experience just using an iframe. I wanted to push it a little further so whipped this demo together. My submission demonstrates progressive enhancement for the form - with js enabled the request targets an iframe that is inserted into the dom, meaning the page doesn't actually navigate (similar to event.preventDefault()). The iframe receives the html response from the request and on load triggers a function to swap out it's contents into the main page.

As described on htmx.org: "htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext"

Apart from the source code itself, the repo's README also gives a bit more details about the various packages I used.

1. htmx: https://htmx.org/

Also, there’s some response header juggling you have to do when submitting forms that have a validation step before redirecting: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/issues/369

I’ve tried to iron out any footguns or server requirements I’ve bumped into while using HTMX & Hotwire in my projects.

✨ In recent months, I have been developing web projects using GOTTHA stack: Go + Templ + Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js. As soon as I'm ready to talk about all the subtleties and pitfalls, I'll post it on my social networks.

I've been digging into HTMX lately (using Python web frameworks) and find the concepts and approach to be interesting and promising. The idea of hypermedia driven systems over the current practice of JavaScript based frameworks (I never really got into React, played with Vue, and enjoy Svelte/SvelteKit) and the ability to chose your language/framework for the backend while primarily leveraging HTML/CSS on the frontend just seems refreshing.

Apparently it changed from 2-clause BSD: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/commit/e16f1865a494b6...

(The zero clause license drops the requirements for preserving the copyright notice when distributing)