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.

Hype

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