Modern front-end development: skinny jeans and handlebar mustaches ITT

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Ihmemies: Oct 6, 2012

I have not done such things, but they surely can't be harder than making GUI apps with C++/Java and QT/JavaFX...

So I installed angular on my server, and created a project. The tsconfig.json was lacking in some aspects, so I added in a few more configuration variables. Will I hate myself for this?

code:

  "compilerOptions": {
    // strictness
    "allowUnreachableCode": false,
    "allowUnusedLabels": false,
    "alwaysStrict": true,
    "exactOptionalPropertyTypes": true,
    "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "noImplicitOverride": true,
    "noImplicitReturns": true,
    "noImplicitThis": true,
    "noPropertyAccessFromIndexSignature": true,
    "noUncheckedIndexedAccess": true,
    "noUnusedLocals": true,
    "noUnusedParameters": true, 
    "strict": true,
    "strictBindCallApply": true,
    "strictFunctionTypes": true,
    "strictNullChecks": true,
    "strictPropertyInitialization": true,
    "useUnknownInCatchVariables": true,
// etc...

I wanted to try out some Trypescript. I don't want to re-invent the wheel, so I thought Angular might offer some features I'd have to re-code otherwise from scratch. Pure Node.js will be enough of an server for now, I'll just make it return some dummy data in proto phase. Express add-on chiefly seems to support legacy HTTP/1.1 from TYOOL 1997 so that's a big no, no nonono.

Anyways, I'm hoping I can use typescript for the front- and backend, because Javascript is.. not... optimal. My brains start to hurt after trying to do something with it after a while. I want to make a personal web app for my own use, which displays weather information in a format I like.

We've made a few desktop apps which pull data over API, I'd reuse a weather api I've used earlier, so fetching and parsing data should not be a big deal.

How good/bad an idea Angular&node.js SPA with strictest typescript is?

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Ihmemies: Oct 6, 2012

We are doing a project for university's database course. We were given the spec of a billing system web app, and an option to use either PHP or node.js. Database must be postgres.

So that mainly leaves the frontend questions open. Since none of use are very eager to do frontend stuff in our team, someone suggested using HTMX. Basically that adds a bunch of features on top of html you can use to update the content of your webpage: https://htmx.org

I think that leaves us to how to make the page look a bit more modern than what CERN had in 1995, without writing css too manually. Maybe tailwind CSS? https://tailwindcss.com With tailwind we could do also the styling in HTML.

So my question is, does that make sense? Postgres with node.js and express? HTMX+Tailwind CSS in frontend? The course chiefly concentrates on database design and implementation, the app is just there for us to prove that we can implement something which works and meets the specification.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2024 16:47

Ihmemies: Oct 6, 2012

Does that mean we would then use postgres with node.js, next.js?

I am not sure if next.js replaces express completely or partially in a case like this, and do we need a separate thing like tailwind to ease the styling of frontend still?

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