Florimond Manca (en)<p>Am I crazy for pushing back on "<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/JS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPA</span></a> frontend by default"?</p><p>For 2 years. I've been in a team working on a French public service business logic app, mostly lists and forms w/ neat UX.</p><p>The tech is boring. PHP, Symfony, Twig templates. Treat: Turbo, Stimulus, custom elements, for those required bits of interactivity.</p><p>Hell it works. It's fast. It doesn't break. We been updating deps monthly w/o breaking changes. Never had to rewrite!</p><p>Am I crazy, or are we fooled by the JS industrial complex?</p>