Build your next website in Swift 

Htmx gang wuz here

Is it better to be an apple eco system compared to js

@@langahoohlo6695 Facts

@@langahoohlo6695believe it or not. It really is.

and of course, coming up with an idea doesn't mean much until you create a repo 💪

Looks like it’s for static html only

Ignite is designed for static site generation, at least for now, but the result builder approach introduced in the rest of the video can be used anywhere you want.

@@twostraws it’s a super cool idea

Praying won't work. Practice will!

@@tejaspatelia8179 trying brother

I guess Bootstrap will solve them indirectly for you.

But I don’t understand why it would be beneficial to build a website using swift… is it just because we can and it’s cool or does it fixes problems other ways can’t?

@@datping7377 the idea, I guess, is to read the webdev documentation just once, implement the swift code that prints the html and then forget the web syntax forever, living in the swift bubble only. An added benefit would be to always generate the same well crafted code (but honestly... this could be equally achieved by preparing the code snippets in the editor...). In the Python world I've seen many implementations like this, but through big projects aimed at easily building complex frontends for specific purposes (data science usually) and it seemed to me a very reasonable idea. Here I have some doubts about the purpose behind the effort.

This solution is for those who want to use only Swift in the web. If you know JS, then you have a lot of frameworks for different needs

You can already do this with Vapor

@@arjundureja wow didnt know that, thanks brother

Im sorry what. Javascript and Swift couldnt be more different. One is a strongly, statically typed language, designed for a specific use case of building beautiful UI in a close ecosystem. And the other is a dumpster fire that the internet runs on. The only similarity between the two, is that they are programming languages

@@tylerfrydenlund do you know what the word “seem” means?

@@tylerfrydenlund Swift is not designed specifically for building UI. It's general purpose like JavaScript, Python, Java, etc. You might be confusing Swift with the SwiftUI framework

This is actually a list of my favorite languages

It's hilarious because the trend now is statically generated websites instead of dynamic ones. Everything is generated once and served up and only regenerated when the content changes.

Expert in HTML? 🧐 What are you talking about? 😅 Everybody knows HTML if you’re connected somehow with the software development. HTML is just a subset of XML which is widely used almost in every stack.

@@phat80 XML is significantly simpler to work. It has stringent formatting rules which is validated against standards, but they're only a few of them. Every XML parser interprets XML in the exact same way. It's also just pure data without any presentation. XML can be mastered in less than a weekend. HTML formatting rules, on the other hand, are loosely interpreted and left to each browser and platform to interpret and render. The same HTML can differ drastically in presentation depending on the thousands of permutations based on a complex matrix of platforms, screen formats and browsers. If that's not complex enough, there's also CSS which adds another level of complex layout and rendering rules. Its grammar and structure is entirely different. To become an HTML expert requires a rigorous understanding of HTML and CSS and their idiosyncrasies, so much so that it's as complex, if not more, than any major programming language.

@@bobweiram6321 So you can learn html/css in a week. There’s nothing simpler than that in the development world. And you can take another week to learn basic Javascript to understand what’s going on.

@@phat80i avoided html/cs/js altogether during my 8 years of iOS development. I can’t stand these < > symbols they are ugly and hurt my soul😅

This is literally answered in the video, and more than once 🤷‍♂️

@@twostraws i never thought you would reply

Code will ultimately become machine code anyway, why bother with a high level language?