The book starts out with a history of hypermedia, a deep dive on the components of a hypermedia system and then a Web 1.0 style application built entirely in Fl

The book starts out with a history of hypermedia, a deep dive on the components of a hypermedia system and then a Web 1.0 style application built entirely in Flask. It then incrementally improves this with htmx, because htmx extends HTML in a specific way: it generalizes hypermedia controls. It considers how to integrate scripting and JSON APIs into a hypermedia driven application. It then showcases Hyperview (https://hyperview.org https://hyperview.org) a novel hypermedia system for mobile application development. You can't implement things like infinite scroll or active search in plain HTML because plain HTML only supports hypermedia exchanges based on two hypermedia controls, links & forms, with two events, clicks and submits, and your target options are limited to the current window, an new window, iframes and a few other obscure options. htmx generalizes this, allowing you to implement more dynamic user interfaces within the hypermedia paradigm.