<div hx-get="{% url 'web-step-discussion-items-special-counters' object.bill_id object.pk %}?{{ request.GET.url...who knows how many characters long it is.
It's hard to tell whether they optimised the app, deleted a ton of noise, or just merged everything into those 300-character-long megalines.
There's also a slide in my talk that presents how many JS dependencies we dropped, while not adding any new Python. Retrospectively, that is a much more impressive achievement.
of course it (should) lead to a lot less code! at the cost of completely foregoing most of the capabilities offered by having a well-defined API and a separate client-side application
... and of course this is happening as over the last ~2 decades we mostly figured out that most of that amazing freedom on the client-side does not worth it
... most clients are dumb devices (crawlers), most "interactions" are primitive read-only ones, and having a fast and simple site is a virtue (or at least it makes economic sense to shunt almost all complexity to the server-side, as we have fast and very capable PoPs close to users)
It's not that, at least in my opinion, it's that we love (what we perceive as) new and shiny things. For the last ten years with Angular, React, Vue et al., new waves of developers have forgotten that you can output stuff directly from the server to the browser outside of "APIs".
This implementation is "dumb" to me. Feels like the only innovation is using SSE, otherwise it's a `selector.onClick(() => {selector.outerHTML = await (fetch(endpoint)).json()});`. That's most of the functionality right there. You can even use native HTML element attributes instead of doing .onClick https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cli....
I really don't see any benefit to using this.
saying nah, fuck this, let's just do a rerender is what happened, and going back to doing it on server-side is one way, but doing it on client-side is the "React way"
I have also no idea why people love template spaghetti! But of course it can work, and simply setting the bar lower might actually help projects against feature creep.