Regarding (1), I think you might be misunderstanding how FastHTML works. If you want to write JS code in FastHTML, then you can just do that. But you can focus entirely on using it for the bits it works well for.
For instance, I wrote a little app (https://word2md.answer.ai/ ) which lets you copy/paste from MS word, and converts it to Markdown. I found that there's some nice existing JS code for cleaning up MS Word markup, so I used that on the client side, and used server-side python code for converting that to markdown. Here's the Python code, which is just plain python in a regular python file:
Regarding (2), I've heard the same basic argument nearly every time I've tried to create anything new, and I've heard it apply to lots of other people's projects too. Yes, if there's an existing product that's pretty good already, then it's likely the new thing won't be as good in every way. I don't think that's a reason to not try to make something better, however. I like Django a lot, have used it since its very early days, and I'm friends with one of the founders of it -- it's an amazing project. But it's not perfect, and hopefully it's OK if some people want to try different things too.
Regarding 2, I completely agree. A good existing project is no argument against new projects in the same space. It was more an observation (and very current experience of me reworking a fastapi project to Django+ninja because it simply grew in scope enough to merit it).
Regarding 1, I get it, although I do like my ends to be separate. Maybe it's a question of aesthetics and therefore completely subjective.
For instance, I wrote a little app (https://word2md.answer.ai/ ) which lets you copy/paste from MS word, and converts it to Markdown. I found that there's some nice existing JS code for cleaning up MS Word markup, so I used that on the client side, and used server-side python code for converting that to markdown. Here's the Python code, which is just plain python in a regular python file:
https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/word2md/blob/main/main.py
And here the JS code, which is just plain JS in a regular JS file:
https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/word2md/blob/main/wordpaste.j...
Regarding (2), I've heard the same basic argument nearly every time I've tried to create anything new, and I've heard it apply to lots of other people's projects too. Yes, if there's an existing product that's pretty good already, then it's likely the new thing won't be as good in every way. I don't think that's a reason to not try to make something better, however. I like Django a lot, have used it since its very early days, and I'm friends with one of the founders of it -- it's an amazing project. But it's not perfect, and hopefully it's OK if some people want to try different things too.