Vanilla With Candy Sprinkles

This text discusses the process of creating a stateful web server using various JavaScript frameworks and tools, which can be deployed globally and deliver real-time updates. The author presents a baseline application that is a visitors counter, showing how to implement it with different libraries and technologies such as EJS, Mustache, Express, SQLite3, PostgreSQL, Knex, Prisma, WebSocket, HTMX, Redis, Yarn, Pnpm, TailwindCSS, and TypeScript. The author also encourages readers to explore more options and contribute their implementations of the demo application.