Server-Driven UI

[YAMLcase]

I'm coming back to the web-app development industry after leaving it when UI dev moved to the browser. I started building non-static sites when server-side includes were a new concept, and dabbled in PHP until I got fed up trying to make my sites more reactive without having to separate server and client, i.e. jump on the JavaScript bandwagon.

Since that time, I've grown very fond of python as my language of choice and am just now starting to get back into webapp development. HTMX caught my eye because this library can be used to build my holy grail of one code-base for both client and server reactive webapps by swapping DOM nodes. While I was able to build a really impressive reactive site with flask/htmx, this brought me to wanting a couple of things that sent me to flet's doorstep: 1) no more CSS or HTML: Just like in a video game, breaking immersion from python ruins my flow and 2) I want to develop for more than just web browsers. Android, IOS, windows, linux app building seems very appealing to me.

Which brings me to your Flet Mobile Strategy. When I read this, I immediately saw the paradigm that made me fall in love with HTMX: server-driven UI. I am hopeful this catches onand we see more people jumping back to the old-school way of developing web apps.