Why do I feel this is just a dumb marketing attempt?
TIL HTMX
thx
You and I are off the fucking scale. In which direction? Nobody can sa… It’s the left side. I am on the left side.
Hyper Text Markup formally known as Twitter?
That looks pretty cool tbh
I just read it, sounds pretty cool to me. I shifted to the right on the curve I guess.
Wait, new HTML dropped?
Actual element
Me: what is HTMX?
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Are web servers that serve real HTML responses still a thing? Honest question. I thought JSON+client side rendering were the default by now.
Yeah, PHP is extremely common and python frameworks like Flask and Django are getting more popular, but of course no where near PHP.
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php
Just one huge example of a Django user is Instagram: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/15/developer-tools/immortal-objects-for-python-instagram-meta/
The wheel is always being reinvented
Especially with frontend. Feels like every few years there’s a complete paradigm shift that forces everything to be rewritten from scratch.
Some frontend guy said this best. It was something along the lines of:
“JS frameworks went real hard in client side rendering and branding server-side rendering old and archaic. But that they hit performance issues and began re-adopting server side features and trying to make it look cool again after shitting on it for a decade.”
When you shit on php long enough and you end up reinventing php
When the wheel is due for another reinvention.
laughts in vanilla stack
How is this different to react, angular, vue, etc.?
It’s not client-side anymore. You need a backend to produce the HTMX.
