Any way to code frontend without JS?

Dart?

Yes, any way.

You could try Rust or Go (has 2 MB runtime though...), but sadly WASM isn't anywhere mature yet

Now that I think about it people seem to really like Elm, maybe give that a look

Blazor

Yes, just use HTML5.
Or use TS.
Or use some other language and compile to WASM.
Or develop your own browser.

Microsoft Silverlight
Macromedia Flash
Active X Elements
Java Applets
Vbscript
...
Oh, wait..!

Do what they do on phones. Write an app.

Sure, u can use java. GWT, for example... Gonna be painful, yes, but... Possible.

full and proper ssr not a possibility?

Many options. Many. Some better, some worse. Some more production ready, some less so.

@12bitfloat Elm doesn’t seem to be in active development anymore, unless I’m mistaken. So maybe better use something inspired by what Elm was doing?

I heard coffeescript is pretty hip today.

html5 - the way to go for all form inputs
CSS3 - layout, styling and even some animation

Personally, I'd go with a relatively straightforward front end framework, such as UIkit, which provides html, CSS classes and associated javascript in neat, pre-built modules. It is easy to use and very lightweight. There's also a brilliant config tool if you use V2.

php? not a fan tho

There's that library that lets you run python in the browser.

WASM allows you to offload some tasks to it but definitely isn't a replacement for JS (no DOM access)

You have TypeScript but if you hate JavaScript, TS won't really catch your attention.

There are probably many transpilers from other scripting languages.

No, Carl, your $30 landing page doesn't need JavaScript.

Technically, if all your website does is send GET/POST requests by user clicking things and you don't mind page reload behavior, HTML forms are enough.

Also, WASM?

@vintprox Not only WASM.

Other technos here :

Blazor Server Side.

As a developper you never to JavaScript (Except maybe some very EDGE cases)

Now, i'm putting out app in production in a couple of months (10K daily users), we'll see if it holds

Yes! C++, Rust, C#, Dart, Swift, Kotlin, Java, …
Oh! You mean frontend like… websites! Not many good options there. TS… I guess is a bit less retarded than JS.

plain HTML
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com

@localpost it was obvious that a german made that website lol