Modern Frontend Complexity Alternative

Author: BinaryIgor

modern-frontend-complexity-alternative/.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties

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+wrapperVersion=3.3.4
+distributionType=only-script
+distributionUrl=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.9.12/apache-maven-3.9.12-bin.zip

modern-frontend-complexity-alternative/Dockerfile

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+FROM maven:3.9-eclipse-temurin-25-alpine AS build
+
+WORKDIR /build
+
+COPY pom.xml .
+COPY src/main/java ./src/main/java
+COPY dist/src/main/resources ./src/main/resources
+
+# reuse deps across builds
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.m2 mvn clean package
+
+FROM eclipse-temurin:25-jre-alpine
+COPY --from=build /build/target/modern-frontend-complexity-alternative.jar modern-frontend-complexity-alternative.jar
+ENTRYPOINT ["java", "-jar", "modern-frontend-complexity-alternative.jar"]

modern-frontend-complexity-alternative/README.md

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+# Modern Frontend Complexity Alternative
+
+A simpler approach to build web apps with all the expected features:
+* fast load times
+* native-like, smooth transitions between pages
+* high degree of interactivity; most user actions should feel fast
+* real-time validation, especially for complex forms and processes
+* great development experience - ability to quickly see and validate UI changes
+* ability to create, share and use UI components
+* testability - does it work?
+* translations, internationalization
+* ??
+
+For local development we need:
+* Java 25
+* node (TailwindCSS management)
+
+For building & packing, Java is not required but Docker must be present.
+
+For local development, run:
+```
+./mvnw spring-boot:run
+```
+To have reloadable backend; in other terminal run
+```
+npm ci
+
+cd ops
+./live-css-gen.sh
+
+≈ tailwindcss v4.2.2
+
+Done in 93ms
+Done in 169µs
+Done in 4ms
+```
+To have CSS classes (thanks to the use of Tailwind) to be live-generated.
+
+TODO:
+* recheck dev instructions
+* input live validation?
+* some tests
+