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Surprised nobody’s mentioned streamlit yet.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your use case, but if you want to create web apps out of your backend work, streamlit may be your ticket for “easy to understand on the back end, hyper-simple front end.”
At least worth giving it a look.
https://streamlit.io/
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Civic Auth
Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.
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Little bit unconventional, but try writing your front end in Elm, and use the elm-ui library to avoid writing html or javascript.
It compiles to javascript and will generate a an index.html for you if you want.
Elm is highly opinionated… maybe you’ll love it, or maybe you’ll hate it, but it’s a good fit for what you want to do.
https://elm-lang.org/
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For styling, depending on the look and feel you are shooting for, I would suggest either a classless CSS library like https://watercss.kognise.dev/ or (the one I sponsor) https://missing.style
Or, if you want something a bit fancier and are willing to put in some work, Bulma is easy to get going with:
https://bulma.io/
If you want to sprinkle in some fancy-pants AJAX functionality without going full JS front-end retard, I recommend my own library, htmx:
https://htmx.org/examples
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For styling, depending on the look and feel you are shooting for, I would suggest either a classless CSS library like https://watercss.kognise.dev/ or (the one I sponsor) https://missing.style
Or, if you want something a bit fancier and are willing to put in some work, Bulma is easy to get going with:
https://bulma.io/
If you want to sprinkle in some fancy-pants AJAX functionality without going full JS front-end retard, I recommend my own library, htmx:
https://htmx.org/examples
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audience-minutes
generate statistics on the number of audience minutes your site is generating, and if readers make it to the end of your screeds
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SurveyJS
JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.
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bostontraintrack
Discontinued Simple real time tracking of the Boston Red, Orange and Blue metro lines using Open Street Map (via OpenLayers) and the MBTA's real time metro tracking. (service is now shut down)
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Bootstrap
The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
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You could pay a front end dev to use a preexisting template.
Or, you could Google “classless CSS”, if you’re OK writing some HTML.
I made a plug and play CSS library here for those that don’t want to write CSS: https://github.com/andybrewer/mvp
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I use a simple serverside framework such as ExpressJS or FlaskJS, which routes URL requests to HTML page responses.
Served by NGINX on a Linux server. I host with DigitalOcean for $6/month
I use a CSS Framework template. I like Bulma for its simplicity: https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/
Summary of things to google:
- simple Serverside framework for
- Digital ocean nginx tutorial
- CSS Framework Template
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
