Comment by embwbam

I agree. I've been thinking about this lately, and have implemented something I think is interesting in Haskell.

https://github.com/seanhess/juniper

It's an implementation of Elm (imagine React if you're a JS dev), but all logic is executed on the server. State is passed back to the server whenever you choose to listen to an event. The view is then re-rendered and virtual dom diffed on the client. Non-interactive pages are just views. If you want them to be interactive, you add a Message an update function.

I used it on a client project and it was pretty delightful.

It probably isn't documented well enough yet to make total sense, but I think it's a step in the right direction.