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serve side rendering is ideal, but at the end of the day what matters these days is developer productivity. a better question is how long it takes to make somet
by endisneigh 4y ago
serve side rendering is ideal, but at the end of the day what matters these days is developer productivity. a better question is how long it takes to make something like gmail with htmx vs. say react. you might say most apps are not gmail, and you'd be correct. so then you say, ok what about something like wikipedia? easy enough. then you start adding all of this javascript and it becomes a mess.
- infamia 4y agoInteresting you mention Gmail, that's one of the examples given in the Layers Tutorial for Unpoly, which is a batteries-included take on the basic ideas behind HTMX. https://unpoly.com/tutorial https://unpoly.com/tutorial
- pier25 4y agoUse the right tool for the job. Obviously Gmail is a much better fit for React/Vue/etc than HTMX. Gmail is the perfect use case for an SPA but most web apps don't need to be an SPA.
- adamckay 4y ago> Gmail is the perfect use case for an SPA Is it really, though? It's a paginated list of emails, some drag-and-drop functionality, buttons for some ajax functionality. It works reasonably well, but it doesn't need to be so high Javascript compared to Google Docs or maps.
- hunterb123 4y agoViewing your emails offline is pretty important.
- pier25 4y agoAnd being able to use Gmail (search emails etc) while writing an email too