Fully agree on templates but I use Phlex to build UIs with pure Ruby on the server side. A pleasure to work with. And with something like Datastar, reactive UIs with practically no js.
I really don't like Hotwire and FE history (I'm playing with htmx, Datastar, Phlex and love it) but the ActiveSupport autoloader -> to Zeitwerk migration was pretty much something in the background, an implementation detail, at least in my experience. Most devs don't even know what is all this about.
No, stacking in i3 (that's what I was referring to) it's vertical tabbing. I've seen that Niri supports tabbing so I guess I just have to give it a spin to see if it fits.
I like it, specially the Phlex choice. I'd like to know if this framework would work nicely with Datastar js library and its extensive SSE usage. Thanks
The developer is rediscovering the concept of a GUI library. The modern variant is the mouse-driven GUI developed by Xerox in the 1970s (and later commercialized by them as Xerox Star) which Jobs famously copied to create Apple’s Lisa, and Gates famously mimicked to create MS Windows. Since they determine the look and feel of a platform and their design determines the ease with which developers can create apps for the platform, GUI frameworks became pivotal to platform wars across all sorts of products, from OSs to browsers, graphics engines and anything else whose success was determined largely by the interface developer experience.
The README for the project is one of the most detailed READMEs I’ve ever seen. The landing page for the website has as much detail as you can reasonably expect, even including a couple of feature demos. There are clear links to the docs and the code.
The developer has clearly put a lot of thought into this content. Worth taking a second or two to see what’s available before criticising it.
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