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0 pointstroupo9mo ago0 comments

Except it requires learning a bunch of new paradigms including a full on custom DSL, and requires loading a library that is that is at best as heavy as most competition

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mixmastamyk9mo ago· 2 in thread

Not at all, simple things are simple.

troupoOP9mo ago

Simple things are simple everywhere.

And then suddenly you need to be aware of the quirks: https://htmx.org/quirks/

And then you need your backend to handle all the weird new headers: https://htmx.org/reference/#request_headers

And then you need to learn completely non-HTML things like "attribute inheritance" https://htmx.org/docs/#inheritance

And then you need to learn a whole new DSL https://htmx.org/docs/#trigger-modifiers

HTMX probably has more concepts than react at this point in time.

mixmastamyk9mo ago

These examples are trivial and/or rare, especially in comparison to the monstrosity of a SPA framework. I picked up htmx in an hour or two.

I do think it is a bit overengineered however, though there are other implementations of the idea.

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