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Pure JS developers trying to jump off the JS train have a few decent choices now:

- Elixir / Phoenix

- .NET / Blazor

- Laravel / Livewire

- Rails / Hotwire

Or hold on for the JS ecosystem to figure out good patterns that balance performance/maintainability (React Server Components look ok, and will probably trickle into Next.js for those who want a framework).

Does one of the above stand out as a good thing to learn from a career perspective, say, for a JS developer growing tired of frontend?

Is the thirst for React developers ever likely to dry up and leave devs who know these frameworks with an advantage?




It's really not Rails + Hotwire. It's any backend + hotwire.

It works just fine with Django.



Thanks for reminding me about this. I really want to give IHP a try. Seems like a really nice design.


Well Blazor ain't gonna reduce your load front-end load, that's for sure.


Blazor has 2 variants. The server side version works like liveview.


How much is shipped over the wire with server side?




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