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What's wrong with the old PHP+html ways? It's one of the best toolchains to knock out a small to medium sized project. I guess that fundamentally, it's not scalable at all, or can get messy wrt closing tags and indenting. But with this approach I think you're good on both these aspects?

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For websites you make for Tor, you would typically go for PHP or OpenResty, as it needs to be JavaScript-free. I personally aim for JavaScript-free projects regardless.

Of course if you want client-side whatever, you need JavaScript.

JavaScript is optional even on the client side nowadays with the advent of PyScript via WASM, etc.

I did not know that. Is it true? Can I have dynamic updates (something like what AJAX does) without refreshes? If so, I need to do some research in this area! I assume I can use any programming languages for WASM as well?

Sure, dynamic updates are possible. Re language support, I'm only aware of PyScript for Python, and Blazor for C# already being fairly mature. But there are other language ports in progress.

What do they call this these days, dynamic updates using WASM?

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