"We are fond of talking about the HOWL stack: Hypermedia On Whatever you'd Like. The idea is that, by returning to a (more powerful) Hypermedia Architecture, you can use whatever backend language you'd like: python, lisp, haskell, go, java, c#, whatever. Even javascript, if you like.
Since you are using hypermedia & HTML for your server interactions, you don't feel that pressure to adopt javascript on the backend that a huge javascript front end produces. You can still use javascript, of course, (perhaps in the form of alpine.js) but you use it in the manner it was originally intended: as a light, front end scripting language for enhancing your application. Or, if you are brave, perhaps you can try hyperscript for these needs.
This is a world we would prefer to live in: many programming language options, each with their own strengths, technical cultures and thriving communities, all able to participate in the web development world through the magic of more powerful hypermedia, rather than a monolith of SPAs-talking-to-Node-in-JSON.
Since you are using hypermedia & HTML for your server interactions, you don't feel that pressure to adopt javascript on the backend that a huge javascript front end produces. You can still use javascript, of course, (perhaps in the form of alpine.js) but you use it in the manner it was originally intended: as a light, front end scripting language for enhancing your application. Or, if you are brave, perhaps you can try hyperscript for these needs.
This is a world we would prefer to live in: many programming language options, each with their own strengths, technical cultures and thriving communities, all able to participate in the web development world through the magic of more powerful hypermedia, rather than a monolith of SPAs-talking-to-Node-in-JSON.
Diversity, after all, is our strength."
https://htmx.org/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris/