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THE GRAND UNIFYING ARCHITECTURE OF FRONTEND

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Frontend architectures can be understood as three layers: navigation, server-owned content, and client-owned affordances such as optimistic state. The framework maps HTMX, LiveView, Astro, React Server Components, SPAs, and sync engines onto the same model, with differences in transport, lifetime, and how much code reaches the client.