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In practice you don't want to just swap the content 100% of the time. Appending to the current content is quite common too, as is deleting from it. You sometime
by crote 4y ago
In practice you don't want to just swap the content 100% of the time. Appending to the current content is quite common too, as is deleting from it. You sometimes need to touch other elements too, or maybe show a progress spinner.
Or perhaps push a URL to the navigation history.
Htmx provides a batteries-included data-driven experience. It is a means to avoid having to write dozens of slightly different variants of the same 5-10 lines of Javascript.
- t8sr 4y agoBut all of those things are trivial. Are we going to next get a library that lets you declaratively specify string operations and integer multiplication? Why not write a dozen variants of 5-10 lines of readable Javascript? What's the problem? It's maintainable, fast and every other developer will immediately understand it.