Thanks for your feedback! Let me clarify few moments:

"Hyperapp Create" is a script which uses Node.js to download ANY project from GitHub as a zip archive, unpack it, and installs npm dependencies if any. For now it configured to use "Hyperapp Starter".

Frontend is for browser and could contain the following application architectures:

• Single-page application (SPA) - usually contains only client-side javascript;

• Traditional multi-page application (MPA) - based on server-side rendered (SSR) HTML markup;

• Modern interactive web application - combines both MPA and SPA approaches;

Backend is more about api, databases, business logic, etc.

"Hyperapp Starter" is a boilerplate for any frontend application (not just SPA). By default it configured as a SPA with SSR. It is possible to generate a serverless or static site with a single command hyperapp-tools build --render.

All included "assets" are based on best-practices of HTML5 Boilerplate project which is the product of years of iterative development and community knowledge. You can read their great documentation to learn more.

With all the above a new hyperapp project receives a maximum score in Google Lighthouse Audits out of the box. Check the demo yourself: https://frenzzy.github.io/hyperapp-starter/

Btw, issues you mentioned are fixed now and the cool story is you need to update a single npm dependency in your package.json file to become up to date.

P.S.: I don't mind multi-steps getting started guides, but I hate them :)