726: Is HTMX a Joke?

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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