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Been enjoying using PocketBase with Astro + htmx + Alpine

• BilalBudhani 3y ago
  nice! I'm curious to know why would you need Alpine or Htmx if you have one of them in your app? I thought they are mutually exclusive.
  • flaviocopes 3y ago
    htmx = client-server networking Alpine = JS sprinkles Alpine is for example, I want to show/hide a menu on mobile. I want to upload files via drag and drop. I want to have a bin icon over an image when I hover with mouse to delete it. I want to double click an input field to edit it. I want to close an overlay when I click outside of it, or when I press “esc”. Also modals, although you can do them in htmx very nicely too, so that’s borderline. Anything that involves network, htmx. Things that are just frontend, Alpine suits better. _hyperscript is basically the Alpine equivalent. It's like the difference between Turbo and Stimulus in the Rails world
    • BilalBudhani 3y ago
      Gotcha! I'm gonna dig more into this stack. Thanks for breaking it down for me.
  • recursivedoubts 3y ago
    we go into detail on this in the client side scripting chapter of our book: https://hypermedia.systems/client-side-scripting/ https://hypermedia.systems/client-side-scripting/