Developer Experience: Transitioning from htmx to datastar for Better Form Handling
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Summary
The author shares their experience transitioning from htmx to datastar, a hypermedia library that uses SSE and signals. They initially used htmx but found it problematic for large forms, leading them to explore alternatives. Datastar combines features from both htmx and alpine.js, with the author believing JSON communication is superior to form-based communication for server interactions.
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datastar, which is another hypermedia library, but uses SSE and signals.
It claims to have both of the good thing from htmx and alpine.js.
The author has a stand that he thought using form in htmx to communicate with server is a mistake, json should be used inst
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