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htmx got a lot of good press (deservedly) but I think somehow it needs to get to the next step beyond the basic hypermedia evangelism. I don't know exactly what
by nologic01 3y ago
htmx got a lot of good press (deservedly) but I think somehow it needs to get to the next step beyond the basic hypermedia evangelism. I don't know exactly what that step needs to be, because I don't know what a fully "htmx-ed" web would look like. It is promising, but that promise must be made more concrete.
A conceptual roadmap of where this journey could take us and, ideally, some production quality examples of solving important problems in a productive and fun way would increase the fan base and mindshare. Even better if it show how to solve problems we didn't know we had :-). I mean the last decade has been pretty boring in terms of opening new dimensions.
Just my two cents.
- minusf 3y agohtmx never claimed it's the solution for everything. there is no next conceptual step. it's sending snippets of html to the client. i read most htmx threads on hn and it's clear that people are looking for alternatives from react et al. they have a quick look, maybe implement an example and they are angry that it can't do everything they want cause the js ecosystem fatigue is real. the centerpiece of the htmx site is an actual in-production app that was converted from react and it's better because of that. again, it will not be everybody's case. htmx will let a lot of developers go all the way without bringing node into their ruby/python/php world for certain workloads. for them it is the future. the rest should stop reading.
- lakomen 3y agothe title is literally "htmx is the future"... If htmx wants to be the future it needs to be wrapped in a SSR framework. One that performs well.