looking at building a #fullstack web application and looking at my options for #rad #development of the frontend. I'm thinking of using #supabase for the #backend.
It's a fairly simple #CRUD app - or maybe a SCRUD or CRUDS app? The S being for #search
I'd pondering everything from a #lowcode tool to various #frameworks / #libraries - e.g. #react, #vue, #htmx, #materialui, etc.
Thoughts, recommendations?
@_chrismay I've worked with a number of languages over the years (.NET [VB/C#], PHP), these days I've been primarily working in Python and TypeScript.
I've played around with others like Go and Ruby (/Rails)...
The UI is pretty straightforward CRUD + search/filter, so I'm looking for something that simplifies things on the frontend. I don't need a super fancy UI, it should be nice but not fantastic - when it comes to the trade-off between speed/simplicity and sparkly, I fall heavily on the former.
I'm torn between React, Vue, and htmx. React, in particular, adds complexity but also has some really nice pre-built component libraries etc. (Vue does too, htmx...not that I've found).
@davidshq Thanks for your thoughts!
With you falling heavily on the speed/simplicity side of the spectrum, I would suggest either unpoly or HTMX to power your front-end, unless you're using django, in which case, I'd suggest looking into django-unicorn.
They don't come with components, but there are component libraries out there. PicoCSS can help with a baseline that you can add to.
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