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> I thought htmx could be a good solution to keep our front-end super light. It seems htmx stopped working as soon as you gave up on the super light frontend p
by mattrighetti 2y ago
> I thought htmx could be a good solution to keep our front-end super light.
It seems htmx stopped working as soon as you gave up on the super light frontend part :)
You started using third party libraries to render complex UI/UX and state management.
Also, I’d like to point out that saying “it was easier to do X in React” is not really fair if you did that using third-party libraries. It’s just that somebody did it for you so that you didn’t have to.
I sympathise a lot with what’s written in the post actually but in this case I think that htmx was not a good solution from the start if you knew you needed to manage complex states and rendering.
- mikeocool 2y agoIt’s kind of a nice compliment to all of the “we converted our react app to htmx and everything is so much better” articles written by people who probably shouldn’t have used react to begin with.
- WD-42 2y agoExactly. I’m a big htmx fan, but I think this post displays some serious lack of technical awareness from the author. More like they wanted to try out HTMX based on vibes as opposed to its actual strengths and weaknesses which would be apparent to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the web platform and the docs on htmx.org
- chuckadams 2y agoIt sounds to me like they shared a learning experience.
- appendix-rock 2y agoYeah, without having the foresight to know that Hacker News would come after them with very disingenuous interpretations of what they’ve shared, because HN commenters are so used to spending all their days having internet arguments that they take everyone as a personal attack. Nothing in this post indicates that the author doesn’t know any of what all these people in the peanut gallery are snarkily lecturing about, FFS. Working in the open must be so difficult.
- draw_down 2y ago[dead]
- d0mine 2y agohtmx vs. javascript reminds me behave (BDD) vs pytest tests: Gherkin language looks nice in simple cases, and it can be in principle extended for more complex cases, but pure python (pytest) becomes the more convenient the more complicated tests become (when it is necessary to manage several levels of abstractions.
- endemic 2y agoYeah, it seemed from the description of desired functionality that heavy JS was going to be a necessity.
- jboogie77 2y agoI had the same exact thought. The project scope was not “simple” at all and I personally would have jumped straight to react for this.