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Platforms are competitions, and the web is losing. We can do simple, straightforward things to combat that decline...but contemporary frontend isn't doing those things. Why not? A consolidated thread from last week: infrequently.org/2024/10/platform…

I tend to agree with most of what you are saying. What frameworks would you use if you had to create a website or a web app tomorrow? Which ones are worth exploring? I see you mentioned Astro there. Anything else?

@qwik.dev is the only one that can properly eliminate hydration, which is largely to blame for the sluggishness and upfront bloat being dumped onto users. Astro (Islands) is like the middle ground solution, which is an improvement, but why take half measures?

Ecosystem.

Some of us are working on that :) What do you think is missing?

Haven't tried it enough for me to have a list of missing packages but my experience with SolidJS and other "niche" framework is that often times you might miss an headless UI library, Authentication libraries (e.g. Google Sign In), etc. Or worse yet they exist but have been abandoned.

It's not anybody's fault. Less people using a framework = less open source contributors. Then every framework community likes to think they are special either because "they have few but high quality libraries" or "when you have a UI library what else do you need?".