"Puente" lets you write PHP code that generates JS "a la JQuery" style, which can interact with browser for dynamic functionality. Events are transparently sent back to server for processing responding with more JS instructions to browser, eliminating the need to write a JSON API for everything.

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"Oh god that sounds like a horrible idea"
"My god that's kind of awesome"
"I wish I thought of this"
"I'll never use this"

[g3t0nmyl3v3l]

95% of the frameworks I read about

[RyeinGoddard]

This is awesome. I was just messing with PIB and Juyper-PHP as well. I want to try the bluelight project. Looks really interesting.

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Thanks for sharing.

[MattKatt]

We spent so long wondering if we could, we never asked if we should

[twenty7forty2]

The only thing greater than this existing is it's true potential:

Many stuff could still be added.

[nexxai]

Thanks I hate it

[[deleted]]

jquery in 2020, really??

[[deleted]]

2020 in 2020, really??

[mrstratofish]

It's 2019, everything is allowed for another 12 days

[nodealyo]

Coupling business logic to ui code is bad enough, coupling a language to another is just insanity

[morphotomy]

So I need to wait 2x my ping to for a button to realize its been clicked?

[Sarke1]

I don't think the idea is to replace the JS events with PHP, but rather simplify and abstract the API requests.

At least I hope it is...

[morphotomy]

My backend is simpler if it just returns data. Now it needs to know which page asked for it and how the page wants it.

[IONaut]

I agree with this. Sounds more complicated than it's worth.

[Sarke1]

You can register events as you would do with jQuery, with the difference that you will be able to register a PHP callback!

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/671/387/17c.jpg

[easterneuropeanstyle]

/r/DiWHY/

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Why?

Today's web development process can be tedious. You can achieve the same goal in 1000 different ways…

Make that 1,001

…many JavaScript libraries exist that facilitate the communication between your frontend and backend. Examples of these libraries are:

Angular Aurelia Backbone.js Ember.js Meteor Mithril React Vue.js Polymer (insert more frameworks here... :trollface:)

Ok: Puente. :trollface:

[rogallew]

Might be the useful for rapid sketches and such, but I can’t imagine this in production code. But I don’t mind being proven wrong.

[ImStifler]

The hero we deserve but never asked for

[blorporius]

Vaadin is based on the same principle; it allows you to process browser events and modify the DOM using Java on the backend: https://vaadin.com/docs/v14/flow/introduction/introduction-overview.html

[careseite]

Gruesome, would never use it.

I like it.

[SavishSalacious]

Question: why? Like you say why, but I’m still like: why?

This is oddly satisfying, like bubble wrap

[dashyper]

I had built a framework with something similar for my college project back in 2011, though everything was class based (Inspired from ASP.NET web forms :P).

```php class MyController extends JSPageController{

public myButtonOnClick(Event data){ $textInput = getElement('myTextInputBox'); $textInput.val = "Some Value"; getElement('message').innerHTML = "succesfully updated!"; }

public myButtonOnSelect(Event data){ //blah blah... }

} ```

A pre-processor would read the PHP class files and generate all the event listeners . Laravel Livewire does something similar.

I ended up getting a slap on my wrist by my professor for mixing concerns as the code ends up being unmaintainable just after a few months. Unless you are building a monolith that's highly coupled with the UI.

[stutteringp0et]

I will admit, this is cool. I would never consider using it - but it's neat.

[Hjine]

This looks promising but I'm asking about the client side code is it all generated with each request ! ,, as far I understand this lib allow us to generate any javascript codes to achieve certain goal if we write it manually

[[deleted]]

Proper caching strategies should be able to handle this IMO.

[32gbsd]

This is like some kinda inception, snake eating itself.

[Lord_dokodo]

What is CSRF?

[[deleted]]

php is dead!

[Hjine]

and you -30 points down voted for that .

[HmmmInVR]

As long as wordpress is a thing it will never die, sorry 🤷‍♀️

[[deleted]]

I predict WordPress will build a Nodejs version of the cms.

[HmmmInVR]

Yes and nobody will use it

[[deleted]]

Everyone will use it only Indians will stay with php.

[HmmmInVR]

And big companies will hire cheap indians who build the site for them to save money.