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Hi Carson! I've been using htmx sprinkled with hyperscript and I find using your tools very enjoyable (though I found myself fighting a bit with hyperscript at

Hi Carson! I've been using htmx sprinkled with hyperscript and I find using your tools very enjoyable (though I found myself fighting a bit with hyperscript at the beginning but past that and once you get the mindset and the hs way, things are easier). Thanks for these tools! I wanted to also take the opportunity to ask you something you either mentioned, commented or heard in a podcast. You said that htmx might not be the tool to solve all problems (or certain kind of apps). Just asking because I think is also great to hear when not to use something to solve a problem. So, in your opinion what kind of webapps do you consider that maybe htmx is not a good fit? And in that case what alternate tools/approaches do you suggest? Once again thanks a lot for htmx & hyperscript!

recursivedoubts 3y ago
I wrote an essay on that topic here: https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/ https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/ Things that involve a lot of events that need to be handled quickly are not a good fit for hypermedia. Sometimes you can have a rich island inside hypermedia though (e.g. a rich text editor w/ autocomplete, etc) so long at is triggers events and offers form participation. Two common examples I give are google maps and google sheets. Those would be difficult to do well in htmx. (But the settings pages for them might be a good use case for it)
- gedw99 3y ago
  I saw a htmx demo where the first request loaded the whole page to the browser and also synchronously loaded the code on the server into the browsers service worker. The next request hits the service worker and then gets any json from the server ( if not cached ) and returns the html fragment. It uses htmx . I thought it was a nice have your cake and eat it too
- lsferreira42 3y ago
  Hello, how do you do those drawings in this post?

recursivedoubts 3y ago

I wrote an essay on that topic here: https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/ https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/ Things that involve a lot of events that need to be handled quickly are not a good fit for hypermedia. Sometimes you can have a rich island inside hypermedia though (e.g. a rich text editor w/ autocomplete, etc) so long at is triggers events and offers form participation. Two common examples I give are google maps and google sheets. Those would be difficult to do well in htmx. (But the settings pages for them might be a good use case for it)

gedw99 3y ago
I saw a htmx demo where the first request loaded the whole page to the browser and also synchronously loaded the code on the server into the browsers service worker. The next request hits the service worker and then gets any json from the server ( if not cached ) and returns the html fragment. It uses htmx . I thought it was a nice have your cake and eat it too
lsferreira42 3y ago
Hello, how do you do those drawings in this post?