Aaron from Deno here. Of course it's producing HTML as an output, but the point is that you can use JSX and familiar technologies like tailwind to dynamically generate that HTML at edge vs client side.

And unlike a pure static site, you can add API or form routes

Wow, a lot of misunderstanding of what Deno is and how it works in these comments! Must be frustrating for you.

I'm a huge fan of runtimes that reduce boilerplate and configuration, so that's what makes me most interested in Deno. What I'm most concerned about is that we're pushing the idea that Deno's approach to third party imports solves all the problems of npm et al. If we teach developers to think of third party and native libraries as equivalent, I think we're hiding a lot of problems rather than solving them, which could be even worse.

I can appreciate what's being done here, but I think a more compelling demo would have had a bit of dynamic rendering just to emphasize the point (since in the real world, a fully-static site like this would be better served by a static-only hosting service with no custom server running at all, even one on the edge). Even something as simple as grabbing the current timestamp and displaying it in the returned HTML, just to show that logic is running on every request.

This is a very lazy comment. I'm sure it makes you feel smart, but it drags down the entire conversation, and doesn't add anything of value. You seem very capable and accomplished, so I'm confused why you would spend any of your time to simply shit-post on someone who is trying to build something of use to many people.

You are right. It is a lazy comment. I would delete it if I could at this point but thats not possible.

It really comes about from my frustration. So much effort pushing into new tech and the result (at least as I and others in the comments here noted) is something reflective of pre-existing technology that has been around for decades.

I get that though enough of these exercises true innovation does emerge. However there is a whole lot of "re-inventing the wheel" in-between that which is frustrating as it seems to be prevalent.

Wow toxic much? PHP doesn't solve the same problems as JSX

es6 is much more pleasurable to code than PHP. Check Little Javascripter [0]

[0] https://www.crockford.com/little.html

It matters to me as a developer who would choose a hosting environment based on my familiarity with the language I have to write in.