I think for a simple website, especially one with spartenweb or zero JS principles, a language with an architecture like PHP or ASP/ASPX fits well, where you just write HTML and server side code in the same file, and you navigate to that file from your URL to load it. For example, wwwroot/path/to/page.php on the server corresponds to https://example.com/path/to/page.php

Problem is, both PHP and ASP are pretty terrible languages, and ASP(X) has the additional dealbreaker of not being open source and only running on Windows servers, so I don’t really want to use any of them (I’ve tried all three), so are there any better web languages or web frameworks that does something similar?

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    Well said. Of course this is not a black and white issue. Some code and design can be mixed but the PHP way of allowing HTML with server side includes, sometimes even based on form input, is just a recipe for disaster. That’s actually why Cake and Laravel don’t even really allow this, or at least make it super hard to do.