Yeah I’m not sure that can be fully avoided either (maybe JSON payload?). But I think the “data in JS” req might be more about JS being the source of truth for the data in your app In Stellar HTML is the source of truth for the data — stored in element text content / custom attributes
Oh interesting, seeing this exchange elsewhere in the thread I suppose it’s worth mentioning Stellar *does* let you optionally define your data in JS. It’s just not the “idiomatic” way of writing Stellar code github.com/hawkticehurs...
I think this is what I was thinking of. Maybe I’ve been using Stellar wrong 😅