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htmx isn't supposed to replace templating engines, it's supposed to provide the "last mile" to make your SSR pages (usually rendered with some template engine)

by grose 3y ago

htmx isn't supposed to replace templating engines, it's supposed to provide the "last mile" to make your SSR pages (usually rendered with some template engine) more dynamic. I think it's a good idea. I have been writing vanilla JS for SSR'd pages for a while and inevitably reimplement some common patterns over and over (such as "load another page, select part of it, replace part of current page"), of which htmx looks to do a good job of capturing.

hirvi74 3y ago
> it's supposed to provide the "last mile" to make your SSR pages (usually rendered with some template engine) more dynamic. I completely agree. It's basically breathed new life into my job's antiquated .Net SSR [Razor] pages. There is nothing HTMX is doing that I wasn't already able to accomplish with vanilla JS or Jquery, but holy shit has it reduced my need for either (which has also saved me time too).