Am I getting old? As far as I can tell, this is what we were doing before JS became the mighty weapon it is today (like pre-2005).
So if you don't like JS, this is a pattern you might want to revive, but I can hardly believe, that we want to go back to that world as a standard for web development.
Not with this quality nor was it tried with modern tech. New times, new ways to do the same thing. I would prefer to code using this Enhance framework used by to develop this app than React.
If you look at things like htmx and the principles that underpin that many would say the past 15 years have been a holding pattern waiting for browser APIs to catch up and provide a decent front end experience.
Personally I love working on in an “older” style way here the server just sends html to the browser and we don’t need to built an app twice (once in the fronted and once in the back end).
The real magic comes in having the older, full stack approach, sprinkling in JS as needed and then having modern CI/CD for deployments.
So if you don't like JS, this is a pattern you might want to revive, but I can hardly believe, that we want to go back to that world as a standard for web development.
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