I wanted to share this new project:
What’s really nice about it is the focus on core simplicity: no build is required to run anything, built on standards and vanilla ESM.
By default it is good for static sites or server-rendered sites, with backend GET/POST/ETC handlers (basically just REST, with HTML templating), but doesn’t have the full-stack-reactive DB-connected features out of the box that Meteor has.
What is really interesting is it is build less by default, just plain JavaScript (but add build steps via plugins if you want to).
I like the thought exercise of imagining something like Meteor built from a simplicity-focused foundation like Mastro’s, where out of the box the full-stack-reactive features (via plugins) would simply run without a build (add builds optionally, for example if you write TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Less, etc, but no build at all to start with).
This reminds me of some of the simplicity ideas we chatted about in other threads like this one: