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? 20:30 What about extensions? 21:00 Wes' "bomb" question. 24:16 What Scott likes about HTMX. 25:45 What Scott doesn't like about HTMX. 30:33 Hype, Meta Framework. All links available at https://syntax.fm/726 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! Scott: / stolinski Wes: / wesbos Randy: @randyrektor Syntax: / syntaxfm http://www.syntax.fm

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