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0 pointssilentguy2y ago0 comments

I have used HTMX with Flask and Jinja. It makes the process much simpler to do the frontend development as a backend developer. But I can see its limitations. It's not suitable for anything bigger than a hobby project. Also, it doesn't help with keeping the frontend and the api totally separate. You have to return the html object from API which has its own set of problems.

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recursivedoubts2y ago· 3 in thread

> It's not suitable for anything bigger than a hobby project.

This is patently false. It is being used in multiple significant production systems:

https://www.commspace.co.za/

https://zorro.management/

https://www.contexte.com/

https://turboscribe.ai/

and many more. There are times where htmx isn't the right choice, but the idea that its not useful for anything more than a hobby project is simply false.

ativzzz2y ago

The middle 2 links are by solo developers - I wouldn't call those significant production systems. Generally tools like React are helpful for managing complexity across large systems where nobody understands the whole app and layers of of features, bug fixes and optimizations have been baked in over the years and nobody understands the whole app anymore

max_2y ago

The reason "nobody understands the app anymore" is due to the complexity of React and not the application.

HTMX tries to reduce the complexity.

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recursivedoubts2y ago

contexte is a (small & now full stack, after using react) team:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/

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max_2y ago· 1 in thread

I would like to know more about these limitations. I haven't used HTMX on more than a hobby project myself.

>You have to return the html object from API which has its own set of problems.

If you mean that HTMX can't consume JSON. Can't you just create a separate end point for JSON responses?

gitaarik2y ago

Of course that is possible, but wouldn't that make the project more complex again?

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