i decided to use htmx for a frontend for myself and it was a pretty fun experience. even got tailwind involved pretty easily with my rust+maud backend.
my dotfiles follow atlassian's tutorial where they do this, but put the git dir somewhere else and alias away the git command. It has worked pretty well for me.
Shroud is great, easy recommendation. Another of Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay, also great, also very alien.