great idea thank you for the recommendation
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great idea thank you for the recommendation
We decided to integrate our SaaS into Microsoft Business Central and NetSuite as plugins into those systems. BC has its own programming language, called AL, that has a lot of idiosyncrasies from any other language I've worked with. And NetSuite plugins are written in SuiteScript, which is a custom JS runtime with a ton of APIs to learn.
In the "before", it would've taken 5 developers a year or more to build those integrations. I did both by myself in well under a year. Thank you Claude.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/with-ai-on-the...
https://sustainabilitydialogue.uchicago.edu/news/data-center...
https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-co...
That said, even though I still build SPAs at work, but I can't wait for the day that I get to build something big with Django & htmx.
I posted this for the htmx-curious, who can use fake emails and fake data, because you're absolutely right: no one should be signing up for random sites with their real info.
I have a personal project for managing my monthly bills. Ten years ago I wrote it in React (and even posted it here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010853 - zero comments lol). Recently I rewrote it using HTMX and the newly-beta Web Awesome.
I'm really happy with the result. IMO it feels like a 2025 website should – it has animations, loading indicators, a nice theme, etc. No landing page though. Again, I wrote this to solve my own problem, not to create a product to sell.
I'd encourage folks to check it out to see that an HTMX site can look & feel just as modern as a React site.
NB: use dummy data and bogus emails – I don't want your real data.
Thanks for reading :)
(I know we _can_ use them still but it's hard to convince teams of people to stick with them and ignore what the docs say are best practices for the last five years.)
- "vanilla" React (no Next.js or any other framework-y bloat)
- MUI
- React Router (v5 because v6 is a pain)
Backend:
- Node
- Typescript
- Express
- Prisma or Sequelize
- Sometimes Django/DRF in lieu of the above
- MySQL or Postgres
Deployment:
- KISS principle: one Digital Ocean droplet, no serverless or any of that