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Moreover, even after switching to desktop mode on my phone, there's nothing I see that precludes you from employing a little bit of CSS to make those pages render more nicely on mobile screens.
Unless the library code were in some way self-updating or had some server side component, I think it's disingenuous to call the library code embedded in my app anything other than static. I assume by "not static" you are referring to decision to continue improving it, which I think is great and affords you the ability to sell me a newer version.
For a library like this, the only really appealing pricing model is a flat fee that buys unlimited use of the version I buy in perpetuity (even if that fee is several thousand dollars). I'm not, however, going to pay monthly forever for code that (1) you wrote once and is now static, (2) that you aren't hosting, and (3) that I need to integrate into my application myself. That feels like paying my car manufacturer a monthly subscription for heated seats [4].
If I need support I will happily pay you a support fee. Moreover, I cannot take on the liability of my app's bar code scanner ceasing working because you decide to close your doors and then the license won't reactivate.
[1]: https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode
[2]: https://strich.io/comparison-with-oss.html
[3]: https://blog.minhazav.dev/research/html5-qrcode
[4]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23204950/bmw-subscription...
The point to take away from htmx and hypermedia more broadly is that there isn't a clean separation between the front end and back end of a site. The concept of completely separate front and back end teams building SPAs/JSON APIs has been a very costly development that has brought substantial complexity that is wholly unnecessary for most applications.
Your banking/project management/todo list/budgeting/insurance/education/whatever app almost certainly doesn't need to be an SPA and would be developed faster or for less money if it leaned into server side rendering (SSR) and used a library like htmx or Stimulus to enhance the user experience as needed.
Elm is a great language and I've written extensively[1] about how nice it is to use in production. But if you want to get involved in the community, it feels like there's not much to get involved in. The fact that even on the Elm Discourse[2], posts auto-lock after 10 days means that the forum is now pretty dead compared to what it used to be in 2018-2019.
Where's the Librem 5 antenna? Can you link to reports of reception issues stemming from this?
