I'm for people creating things they want to use. I also have a negative, possibly unfounded reaction to the stated purposes of htmx:
>Why should only <a> and <form> be able to make HTTP requests?
>Why should only click & submit events trigger them?
>Why should only GET & POST methods be available?
>Why should you only be able to replace the entire screen?
>By removing these arbitrary constraints, htmx completes HTML as a hypertext"
I guess people do all of these things with javascript anyways but it gave me a "get off my lawn" reaction when I read these bullets.
I just started using HTMX.
It replaced a small volume of VueJS code that I wrote to facilitate a few XHR interactions. Pagination and filtering and search-as-you-type interactions are all so much more pleasant now. Logic is de-duplicated, since it can all live on the server.
I'm a fan.
For those of us who need a refresher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
Also, on another note I think HTMX has successfully positioned itself as a meme, for better or worse. I have tried using it on a few side projects and I do like the simplicity of it, but is there a goal of it being credible software, or just something the creators are having fun with?
While clicking around on the htmx website, I noticed that these two examples are broken:
https://htmx.org/examples/sortable/ https://htmx.org/examples/modal-bootstrap/
Neither worked for me in Chrome or Safari
My favorite part about Htmx - other than being very useful for 90% of all web-apps/websites since the intercooler.js days - it's just the fun of the whole "marketing" side and seeing "young" people ( aka. started their web career in the last 10 years ) royally annoyed and in disbelief how someone can build stuff without using "industry standard React" or Vue or Svelte. ( more than the framework, the way of thinking about web development ).
Seeing "web boomers" having fun and doing their own thing and "young and serious" frontend dev professionals with a career to have acting like the typical know-it-all curmudgeon just warms my heart.
To really understand HTMX you need to follow the Twitter/X account
Can’t tell if all of this is satire, both the webring and the comments here.
I love this!
I've never used HTMX, but it looks interesting.
I just love the spirit of webrings!
When I think back to early days of the web, I recall the joy and excitement of discovering websites from parts of the world I'd never been and likely never will!
The web doesn't need to be social media network scale. It can be about slow personal discovery.
Sites used to be built for expression and utility, not SEO and the glorification of Likes.
SEO and Google ruined blogging. Facebook ruined social media.
The people need to take the web back! :-)