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Saw HTMX on hacker news the other day, thought I’d do this interesting experiment.
by richardanaya 4y ago
Saw HTMX on hacker news the other day, thought I’d do this interesting experiment.
- CGamesPlay 4y agoAny takeaways? Is it a promising direction? Would it be viable to create an “isomorphic rust” web app?
- paulgb 4y agoI’m very interested in isometric Rust apps. The widespread support for serialization makes it really nice for writing distributed systems that send arbitrarily complex data structures over the wire, which is where JS becomes a pain.
- nabakin 4y agoHow would you maintain state in the service worker when is shutdown by the browser after being idle for a period of time? Or does Htmx not keep state on the server side in the first place?
- tannhaeuser 4y agoWhat's the point, though? HTMX or any other SGMLish angle-bracket markup template engine is for content creators/authors, not necessarily developers. Sure you can play connect-the-dots and combine technologies picked up from the HN front page, but if you're using heavyweight developer pipelines such as Rust and WASM with service workers anyway, that's already way out of reach for non-developers, and comes with full developer responsibilities for testing, security, maintenance, build systems, versions, dependencies, and whatnot.
- robertlagrant 4y agoDifferent tools aren't for certain types of people. They're for different purposes.
- endigma 4y agoDo you know at all what htmx does? Your description of it as an "SGMLish angle-bracket markul template engine" suggests you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
- sgt 4y agoHTMX is very interesting, I saw it presented at DjangoCon. Being involved in a lot of SPA's these days I can't help think that we spend way too much time building complex frontends and managing state. Anyone feel the same way? HTMX feels fresh.
- altilunium 4y agoQuite a potential. I hope it wont suffer from performance penalty or something.