alt Hacker NewsI like this familly of technologies. Having an SPA-type app that's mostly backend.
Recently i've redone my app website (https://alt-tab.app), and I implemented a minimal spa.js that has a similar approach. I find the end result blazing fast, simple to maintain / reason about, few moving pieces. I used Early Hints, compressed every single thing, inlined CSS, etc. I don't know how i could even make it faster.
I recommend this approach for websites that are not very complex. Of course if i made a browser-based music player with a super dynamic UI, that would have been a different story~
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For those of you a similar SPA-type app with more type safety – which is even more useful for writing code with AI – you may want to have a look at the Gleam language and the Lustre web framework [1]. It combines the best of Elixir and Elm. You can mix and match having more logic in the backend or the frontend, as Gleam compiles both to Erlang and to JS.
Very cool concept with AltTab. Have always been looking for something like it!
Oh, the alt tab developer! I actually love your product.
Dude thank you for making AltTab. Recently you've introduced the pro version and paywalled some features behind it. That's totally fine and I bought the pro version but my honest 2c for you is...25 bucks for a window switcher app seems too high. Please make it 15 or less. Thanks
Can't the website be literally static HTML for 99% of it? I don't really see any user defined input that would change the output.
It's really fast, and seems fine, but is it just static pages? If not, why not. That's the question most front end devs don't ask themselves enough.