mb2100

Joined 13 years ago

Karma

118

Submissions

117

Member since

Jan 26

http://github.com/mb21

hacking on https://mastrojs.github.io

View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 10 days ago

There are JS libs (like Reactive Mastro [1]) that go well with writing otherwise vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, and there are libs (like React) where you're quickly sinking into a mud of abstractions and have to fight the reactivity runtime when you try to write vanilla JS.

[1]: https://mastrojs.github.io/reactive/

Comment · 1 month ago

That's weird, considering the guy who put the fetchable.org website up works at Netlify.

Comment · 1 month ago

Not quite. Perhaps you were thinking of "ethnic cleansing" ?

Comment · 1 month ago

Short answer: no, not necessary. Long answer: https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-11-27-why-not-just-use-...

Comment · 1 month ago

Is understanding Dutch (reading and listening) good enough?

Comment · 1 month ago

They're not experienced with git, but still use the command-line? Interesting. Or would you think a jj GUI would help them?

Comment · 2 months ago

2. You must have never written Haskell.

Comment · 3 months ago

how do I do that? :-)

Comment · 3 months ago

Agreed, but uhtml-ssr looks a bit dated. If you want a html tagged template literal lib with no dependencies, see for example:

implementation: https://github.com/mastrojs/mastro/blob/main/src/core/html.t...

docs: https://mastrojs.github.io/docs/html-components/

Comment · 3 months ago

No dependencies. No build step. Just a simple web framework. Implemented in just ~800 lines of TypeScript.

https://mastrojs.github.io

Comment · 3 months ago

Some people even like stinky!

Comment · 3 months ago

This. Cannot believe it too so long for somebody to finally mention progressive enhancement.

Comment · 4 months ago

> Backend and UI communication goes through in-process channels, not socket-based IPC

Are they running the frontend and backend in the same process? Sounds a bit dangerous security-wise?

Comment · 4 months ago

This. "No loading animations" works if you rely on the browser's loading indicators that all users will be familiar with.

@OP, if you're up for a rewrite of the frontend, happy to help you get started with https://mastrojs.github.io

Comment · 4 months ago

the achilles heel of SPAs everywhere.