When I got started in software development I made python/flask applications that returned html to the user.
Then this whole frontend / backend split became popular and the serverside would return json for the frontend to work with.
Now htmx is bringing back the old ways and I absolutely love it. Not yet sure how much of it is nostalgia but currently I really hope this new/old way of doing web dev will gain attention.
</> htmx - high power tools for html
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react