So I'm kind of obsessed with this problem, believing that programmers in our society could be dedicated to much more than building the same application over and over again.
If your page is a listing of items (could be e-commerce, could be a listing of users in an internal application), it's really just a fancy way of saying List<T>.
At the same time I know that some things can't be automated well and still require translation from spec to layout. Some flexibility is required.
However, there can be a starting point which can be built up from. Then components can be defined for things that need more definition, that need a well-designed UX or specifically tailored user interaction design.
Where I am now is a small template language that also contains the definition of a reducer-based dispatch mechanism.
I am close to having TodoMVC implemented in about 80 lines of this scripting language, which can be compiled to javascript using any number of frameworks or libraries, but can also be used to serve a functional site with the HTML pre-generated which can then be hydrated with client-side javascript. This is all done without using server-side javascript.
I have designed it to be usable by someone without an ML background, someone who doesn't fully grok monads or lift.
It is mostly imperative with a functional pipeline/filter construction in places.
You can see an older version of the code and a static demo here:
So I'm kind of obsessed with this problem, believing that programmers in our society could be dedicated to much more than building the same application over and over again.
If your page is a listing of items (could be e-commerce, could be a listing of users in an internal application), it's really just a fancy way of saying List<T>.
At the same time I know that some things can't be automated well and still require translation from spec to layout. Some flexibility is required.
However, there can be a starting point which can be built up from. Then components can be defined for things that need more definition, that need a well-designed UX or specifically tailored user interaction design.
Where I am now is a small template language that also contains the definition of a reducer-based dispatch mechanism.
I am close to having TodoMVC implemented in about 80 lines of this scripting language, which can be compiled to javascript using any number of frameworks or libraries, but can also be used to serve a functional site with the HTML pre-generated which can then be hydrated with client-side javascript. This is all done without using server-side javascript.
I have designed it to be usable by someone without an ML background, someone who doesn't fully grok monads or lift.
It is mostly imperative with a functional pipeline/filter construction in places.
You can see an older version of the code and a static demo here:
https://tmzt.github.io/isymtope/
You can also see where it's going:
https://github.com/tmzt/isymtope/blob/feature-querylens/res/...
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tmzt/isymtope/feature-quer...