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Inspiration

Imagine a world--a pristine--world, where powerful websites could be created in a purely Javascript framework without the hassle of HTML and CSS.

This is Flatline4

Flatline4 is the next generation front-end development framework for the modern world.

Carefully crafting perfection

Flatline4 was built from the ground up in TypeScript. In fact, out GitHub repo is over 97% TypeScript. After extensive planning and design work, we brought this project to life in around 24 hours. Now that's what we call impressive. The team used Visual Studio Code with a WebPack build process to enable powerful, comprehensive development and deployment.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This is a fully featured framework. No joke, we support:

Ajax (not the dish soap)
Dynamic HTML Generation from JavaScript (Complete with CSS)
Routing support for multiple pages

Oh the challenges...

Supporting comprehensive HTML generation brought with it a whole host of complications. The first challenge was to design the proper syntax that would allow JavaScript to replace HTML without adding an enormous layer of complexity. This syntax went through about as many iterations as we went through energy drinks, and further refinement is still in store. Additionally, supporting almost every HTML tag and CSS style required extensive code.

The HTML generation was a shining accomplishment. Flatline4 supports almost all HTML tags available, with complete CSS coverage for every HTML tag.

What we learned

Never take a web framework for granted. There is a reason that front-end web frameworks aren't a dime a dozen. They're hard. Luckily, our use of TypeScript was a godsend after we got comfortable with the syntax.