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New comment by mb2100 in "TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components"

mb2100 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:31:12 +0000

Agree that TypeScript is nice, especially for sharing templates and types between server and client. But you can still use TypeScript on the server without sending it all to the client, and without a complex and insecure protocol like RSC. I’m working on making this as simple and dependency-free as possible: https://mastrojs.github.io

New comment by mb2100 in "The End of Eleventy"

mb2100 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:01:11 +0000

That was exactly my experience as well, hence I created a "Minimal Astro": https://mastrojs.github.io

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mb2100 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:53:39 +0000

Article URL: https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-18T07:00Z/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426555

Points: 6

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New comment by mb2100 in "A simple web we own"

mb2100 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:33:37 +0000

Yeah, for that a git-based CMS like Sveltia is really nice.

And for people that actually want to learn a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Mastro JS is as simple a static site generator as I could make it.

New comment by mb2100 in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

mb2100 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:32:05 +0000

if you're not using CSS modules, why would you import the css file into your javascript? But anyway, I think we agree. Feel free to read the linked blog post ;-)

New comment by mb2100 in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

mb2100 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:30:19 +0000

button, .button { /* my button styles */ }

New comment by mb2100 in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

mb2100 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:43:31 +0000

If everything in your code is a React component, I get why you would just want to write the styles right there.[0] Then again, why write `

New comment by mb2100 in "[dead]"

mb2100 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:53:09 +0000

In Unix, everything is a file. In Mastro, everything is an HTTP route. You use the standards-based Request/Response-API not only for writing your server, but also for static site and asset generation. And it's beautiful.

New comment by mb2100 in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

mb2100 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:43:51 +0000

Tell me you're nostalgic for Win95 without telling me...

New comment by mb2100 in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

mb2100 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:40:51 +0000

As company size grows, managers want to settle on a "standardized" tech stack that doesn't get in the way when they want to hire and fire people at will.

Nobody was ever fired for choosing React (or IBM). But everyone can get fired when they're working on a React app.

New comment by mb2100 in "jQuery 4"

mb2100 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:35:31 +0000

That's a very nice pattern indeed. If you add signals, the update function even gets called automatically. That's basically what we do in [Reactive Mastro](https://mastrojs.github.io/reactive/) ;-)

New comment by mb2100 in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

mb2100 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:18:47 +0000

that very much depends on your definition of "modern web framework".

New comment by mb2100 in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

mb2100 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:41:05 +0000

Congrats to Fred and team! Developing and maintaining a complex framework takes lots of funding, and I’m glad Astro found a new home that provides that.

With [Mastro], we have a different approach. The name originally stood for "minimal Astro", and we’re staying true to that. At just ~700 lines of TypeScript, Mastro will always be easily maintainable – even if by just a single person. And it's amazing how much you can do if you're very deliberate in your API's design.

[Mastro]: https://mastrojs.github.io/

New comment by mb2100 in "Ruby website redesigned"

mb2100 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:30:28 +0000

It even loads the code snippets in separate HTTP requests :-( But the snippets themselves are really good! I'm going to update mine on https://mastrojs.github.io

New comment by mb2100 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

mb2100 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:35:11 +0000

https://mastrojs.github.io

The simplest web framework and site generator yet – no leaky abstractions between you and the high-performance engine that is a modern browser.

New comment by mb2100 in "JSDoc is TypeScript"

mb2100 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:06:58 +0000

This. Or use ts-blank-space if you prefer TypeScript over JSDoc. That's what we do in https://mastrojs.github.io

New comment by mb2100 in "Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign"

mb2100 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:04:41 +0000

It has data-drupal attributes in the source. Not sure where the Perl and Java things would have come from.

New comment by mb2100 in "The fate of "small" open source"

mb2100 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:44:44 +0000

I totally agree that the goal should be teaching. But I do wonder which code someone is more likely to actually read and understand: the LLM-generated one in their own codebase, or the one hidden in some npm package they installed to just ship things. I honestly don’t know. Careless devs probably won’t read either as long as it seems to work

I’ve been trying to encourage forking my libraries, or have people just copy them into their codebase and adapt them, e.g. https://github.com/mastrojs/mastro/ (especially the “extension” libs.) But it’s an uphill battle against the culture of convenience over understanding.

New comment by mb2100 in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

mb2100 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:21:13 +0000

Thanks, this one? https://github.com/jon49/html-template-tag-async Looks very similar indeed! What makes it "more powerful" than Mastro's html template?

New comment by mb2100 in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

mb2100 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:42:41 +0000

Since we're sharing HTML in JS syntaxes. Don't forget JS tagged template literals like https://jsr.io/@mastrojs/mastro/doc/~/html