A Local-First Case Study

The web development community talks a lot about single-page apps, but are we all on a single page? Here's my ontology of apps organized by rendering and navigation.

A CSS reset I've been using for new projects.

People talk about htmx as though it's saving the web from single-page apps. Well, I guess I missed the memo, because I used htmx to build a single-page app.

Web components won't take web development by storm, or show us the One True Way to build websites. What they will do is let us collectively build a rich ecosystem of dynamic components that work with any web stack.

A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.