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I'm optimistic that this will be a simpler setup. It may still involve the same steps for the data flow, but in a much simpler way. Our websites will work much closer to the way the web was build, without trying to replace it as an entire javascript based application. We don't entirely cut out the translation layer, but we do simplify it. I still build the database schema as I always would, and then build a separate API schema on top, inside the database, that uses views to provide the model that makes sense for applications. This 'api' schema implements the business logic, and then we connect to it as we would an ordinary database. Server side rendering websites can talk to the database directly using SQL (a highly valuable ability). And in the case where we need to provide an API, we can use a project like PostgREST, which serves up the api schema we built which implements all the business rules.
What about the interactivity we get from using something like React? Again, a story for another post, but the short of it is I can get most if not all of what I need from a small library like htmx. There are two particularly exciting things about using something like htmx. First, is that for most functionality the site will still function if javascript is disabled. The second is that websites are super quick to load. With Tailwind, htmx, and a splash of other projects where needed, pages can be super slim and the first (as well as all subsequent) load time can be very fast.