The application provides VS Code tasks to run both server & client parts.
You can start Huncwot Server and Client tasks from Tasks: Run Task menu in Command Palette.
- Install dependencies
npm install
- Start the server
huncwot server # you can also use `hc` instead of `huncwot`
- Start the client
huncwot client
- Go to localhost:5544 to see the application running
This application uses TypeScript on the front-end and on the back-end. This way you have not only one programming language to learn, but also you use one ecosystem of libraries when building web applications.
Huncwot provides first-class support for Snowpack so that you can build modern web applications (using React, Vue et al) without a bundler (like Webpack, Parcel or Rollup). Instead, you use ECMAScript modules.
Preact is a fast 3kB alternative to React.js that comes with the same modern API. Preact can be used directly in the browser without any transpilation steps. In addition, the libraries provides various improvements such as raw HTML attribute/property names (i.e. class instead of className) or arguments in Component.render().