thrift

> That's just your choice of how to build your app, right? You could've avoided this by rendering templates on the server and sending static HTML to the client, keeping the business logic on the server. No, that's a requirement on most business cases, my comment stated 'complex and dynamic web apps'. Re-rendering the whole page everytime the user checks a box or clicks a button just to replace some fields in a whole page is (a) terrible UX, (b) hard to track the state between page refresh, (c) wrong practice and (d) bad performance. > Here's just one of ten-thousand other battle-tested options you can use: https://github.com/apache/thrift/ Sure, I should setup a complex and huge dependency for just one of the many problems I highlighted. What a great idea

> "Most of the logic inside the form has to be written two times: in PHP and in vue" Why? That's just your choice of how to build your app, right? You could've avoided this by rendering templates on the server and sending static HTML to the client, keeping the business logic on the server. > "Most enum types are repeated" Here's just one of ten-thousand other battle-tested options you can use: https://github.com/apache/thrift/

An alternative approach might be to use an existing popular serialization format such as Protocol Buffers, Apache Thrift, or Cap'N'Proto and create or improve tools that convert to/from human-readable text formats to the serialized binary format. For example: - Protocol buffers have a text format mode: https://medium.com/@nathantnorth/protocol-buffers-text-forma... - Thrift has readable-thrift which is a human-friendly encoder and decoder: https://github.com/nccgroup/readable-thrift - Cap'N'Proto has a `capnp` tool for encoding/decoding text representations to binary which seems to be officially supported and documented! https://capnproto.org/capnp-tool.html These libraries have been battle-tested by major companies in production, some protocols and implementations have gone through security audits, and in addition each of these formats a