Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

726: Is HTMX a Joke?


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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
  • 02:07 Brought to you by Sentry.io
  • 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.
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