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Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · 16h

Finally, we got PHP in JavaScript! 👀

Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

Coolest part: LLMs understood the syntax instantly! No explanation needed; most completions were single-shot correct.

Turns out, using familiar patterns (PHP-like + Web API) really pays off.

Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

Introducing Rendu: JavaScript Hypertext Preprocessor

Not just a template engine — Rendu bridges SPA and SSR using modern Web APIs with multi-streaming and async support.

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Markus Oberlehner @markus.oberlehner.net · 16h

Reverse JSX? Instead of HTMLish syntax in JS, JSish syntax in HTML 🤭

Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

Introducing Rendu: JavaScript Hypertext Preprocessor

Not just a template engine — Rendu bridges SPA and SSR using modern Web APIs with multi-streaming and async support.

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 16h

Haha, I LOVE this line 😀

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 17h

What if I told you your Vite SPA could do partial server-side rendering and streaming? 😌

Let’s talk about how. 👇 (1/1)

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

Coolest part: LLMs understood the syntax instantly! No explanation needed; most completions were single-shot correct.

Turns out, using familiar patterns (PHP-like + Web API) really pays off.

Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

Introducing Rendu: JavaScript Hypertext Preprocessor

Not just a template engine — Rendu bridges SPA and SSR using modern Web APIs with multi-streaming and async support.

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

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Introducing Rendu: JavaScript Hypertext Preprocessor Not just a template engine — Rendu bridges SPA and SSR using modern Web APIs with multi-streaming and async support. https://t.co/cgmyDW7Zwq

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

Playground: stackblitz.com/github/h3js/...

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

Github project:

github.com/h3js/rendu

GitHub - h3js/rendu: 🏎️ JavaScript Hypertext Preprocessor. [experimental]

🏎️ JavaScript Hypertext Preprocessor. [experimental] - h3js/rendu

github.com

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 20h

Introducing Rendu: JavaScript Hypertext Preprocessor

Not just a template engine — Rendu bridges SPA and SSR using modern Web APIs with multi-streaming and async support.

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 4d

Express has proven to be simple and reliable. It’ll never die just like good old PHP 😁

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 5d

jhp-fpm? :))

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 5d

<?= is shorthand for <? echo 😁

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 5d

Only now there is no framework just good HTML and JS 😁

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 5d

But why? I mean what can go wrong for simple dynamic pages?

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 5d

Too late 😂

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 5d

Lets make old, the new 😄

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 5d

@juliangruber.bsky.social, would you donate npmjs.com/jsp ? 😅 I will make it happen!

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 5d

🐘Why not?

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 7d

JS pro tip: Add { cause } to errors. Makes debugging and inspection way easier 🔍

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 8d

So obsessed with keeping H3Core’s bundle small. It’ll grow over time with more features, so now’s the best chance to make the baseline tiny (currently: 7.5 kB /3 kB gzip).

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 8d

github.com/h3js/h3/pull...

feat: support universal `{ fetch }` handlers by pi0 · Pull Request #1210 · h3js/h3

H3 by default supports (event: H3Event) => any handler format. For better external compatibility, we have introduced app.mount(<base>, <fetchable>) where it is possible to mount an e...

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 8d

✨ H3.dev now natively supports { fetch } handler format.

This means you can plug in any web-compat framework (like @hono.dev or @elysiajs.com with @nitro.build’s filesystem routing out of the box 🤝

Standards + interop FTW! ❤️

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 8d

Interesting! Feel free to open a GitHub issue tracker at least. I want to upstream it eventually and reduce install size.

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 8d

🌶️ Hot take on JS runtimes, based on my obs, take it with a grain of salt.

🚀 Perf: bun > node > deno
🛡 Stability: node > deno > bun
📜 Compliance: deno > node > bun
🧩 Features: bun > deno > node

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 9d

Thank you for the new default! 🙏

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