Why “htmx” is being discussed
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Location: Lille, France Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: - Devops: Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Netbox, GCP, AWS, ... - Backend: Python (Django, Fast…
by linkdd · Sep 1, 2026
HTMX is designed for enhancing web pages, not making full apps on web platform as Elm is. They have different use cases.
by hackingonempty · Sep 1, 2026
I've been building a JavaScript framework called *Voodoo.js*. I'd rather get torn apart in the comments than hear that it looks cool. It started with one question: how much Java…
by kwy404 · Aug 31, 2026
When sending json data, the browser has to run javascript to parse incoming data, keep track of it, and assemble the UI based on that data. One of the hardest parts of webdev is…
by mkrd · Aug 31, 2026
I still do not get the point of Htmx of doing the templating in the server side. Maybe it is just me. Can anybody explain it better why mixing templates in the backed and HTML i…
by jordiburgos · Aug 31, 2026
The creator is stuck in 2012 and so on as I said. If you look at project fixie, the reason htmx 4 exists, it shows how the 80/20 is an incomplete idea for something as gene…
by asdf88990 · Aug 31, 2026
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htmx is an open-source front-end JavaScript library that extends HTML with custom attributes that enable the use of AJAX directly in HTML and with a hypermedia-driven approach. These attributes allow for the dynamic definition of a web page directly in HTML and CSS, without the need for writing additional JavaScript. These attributes allow tasks that traditionally required writing JavaScript to be done completely with HTML. The library was created by Carson Gross as a new version of intercooler.js. Read more on Wikipedia