726: Is HTMX a Joke?
Feb 05, 2024•32 min
Episode description
Scott and Wes unravel the mysteries of HTMX, exploring the essentials for getting started, its powerful capabilities, limitations, and possible stacks for building primarily server rendered applications.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome
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02:53 What exactly is HTMX?
04:30 What you need to know before working in HTMX. 04:35 You need a server.
05:35 You’ll most likely need a templating engine.
06:42 You most likely do not need as much client-side JS.
08:33 You don’t work in JSON
11:15 Not something you can swap out your UI with in a SPA.
11:48 Brings back AJAX
13:32 So, what can it do?
15:20 And what it doesn’t do. 18:25 It doesn’t do server-side responses.
19:09 What about animations?
19:20 What about CSS?
19:57 What about Web Components?
20:06 What about third-party client-side JS?
20:18 What about WebSockets and SSE?
HTMX WebSockets
20:30 What about extensions?
HTMX Extensions
21:00 Wes’ “bomb” question.
24:16 What Scott likes about HTMX.
25:45 What Scott doesn’t like about HTMX.
HTMX Multi-Swap
30:33 Hype, Meta Framework.
Hype
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