HTMX Experience: From Adoption to Abandonment - A Developer's Perspective
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Summary
The article discusses the author's experience with HTMX, a web development framework that promotes a hypermedia-first approach to building web applications. The author initially embraced HTMX's philosophy of using HTML attributes to handle dynamic behavior instead of JavaScript, but ultimately decided to move away from it. The piece explores the broader movement in web development addressing "JavaScript Fatigue" and the revival of hypermedia approaches, while sharing the author's personal journey and reasons for ultimately ditching HTMX despite appreciating its core concepts.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThere is a kind of exciting movement in Web dev right now. Web devs are talking about "JavaScript Fatigue", "Framework Fatigue", the "Revival of Hypermedia" and "HTML Over The Wire".
The figurehead for this movement is undoubtedly HTMX. It shows that much of what we do in JavaScript could instead be done declaratively, with HTML attributes.
If browsers adopted these semantics natively, many websites - and even apps - wouldn't need JavaScript at all.
I love this idea! Writing HTML first and adding JS on top is the
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