Does this support ActiveX?
OMG, I'm so old I understand this joke. This is sad actually.
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#42Does this support ActiveX?
OMG! I had a flashback. Do any of you remember HP Quality Center?. Its early versions had entire UI in activeX and I remember a bunch of progress bars installing DLLs.
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#43Nice! I have been using maplibre with django and htmx. I should try and put an example up there to share with others.
Hey same! I made https://ratethispad.com and it was a lot of fun to make. (Nobody uses it though...) I would love to see your project as well.
Would be cool if either the zoom level I need to see reviews would be smaller (more zoomed out), or if there is a list of the reviews that exist on this page.
Currently, as there are probably not many reviews on that site it is near impossible to see an example of a review.
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#44I was seriously thinking about using HTMX myself, but I'm kinda scared it's developer pool seems too small to hire devs from.
I'm used to proprietary frameworks, in my case I worked with intershop which uses isml. (this is comparible to something like thymeleaf). In recent years we tried to move away from this approach and go to the angular front end Stack because it's easier to hire a dedicated frontend developer than it is to hire a specialized fullstacker. Stuff can get complex when you're using something like htmx and developers don't want to fight spaghetti monsters. You don't want you backend guys to be the bottleneck, e.g. when FE just creates HTML and the backend has to tie it all together.
My question is; has HTMX thought about the pitfalls like this, and how do you counter it?
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#45I was seriously thinking about using HTMX myself, but I'm kinda scared it's developer pool seems too small to hire devs from. I'm used to proprietary frameworks, in my case I worked with intershop which uses isml. (this is comparible to something like thymeleaf). In recent years we tried to move away from this approach and go to the angular front end Stack because it's easier to hire a dedicated frontend developer th…
> I'm kinda scared it's developer pool seems too small to hire devs from
It is very straightforward to pick up. Unless you hire code camp devs who only ever learned React, no actual CS topics, anybody should be productive within at most a week.
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#46I was seriously thinking about using HTMX myself, but I'm kinda scared it's developer pool seems too small to hire devs from. I'm used to proprietary frameworks, in my case I worked with intershop which uses isml. (this is comparible to something like thymeleaf). In recent years we tried to move away from this approach and go to the angular front end Stack because it's easier to hire a dedicated frontend developer th…
I've not used it in a team environment. I'm used to working with an FE developer or team. The last time I did js, jquery was the new hotness. For me on a personal project, I tried react and svelte. Both we monsters for building a site that needed some js elements and interaction. I was able to get htmx working quickly and I've only had a couple of snags.
One neat benefit is that I am now able to unit test (well, unit integration) my views with a headless browser because my UI is served by my backend and not a separate service that has to run with all the yarn and npm bs.
TL;DR: I'm a backend person who struggled to pick up react over a weekend but picked up htmx in an hour. Your FE devs will have no problems with htmx.
They will have to become familiar with your system's templates syntax and how to work in the backend to organize their partials and components and may even have to decide how that should all be structured.
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#47I was seriously thinking about using HTMX myself, but I'm kinda scared it's developer pool seems too small to hire devs from. I'm used to proprietary frameworks, in my case I worked with intershop which uses isml. (this is comparible to something like thymeleaf). In recent years we tried to move away from this approach and go to the angular front end Stack because it's easier to hire a dedicated frontend developer th…
> I'm kinda scared it's developer pool seems too small to hire devs from It is very straightforward to pick up. Unless you hire code camp devs who only ever learned React, no actual CS topics, anybody should be productive within at most a week.
I would go so far as to say if you can understand React, you can understand HTMX.
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#48Are there any companies using htmx? Places where we can see examples of complex interaction?
> complex interaction
Yeah, htmx looks endearingly simple but I worry we might be painting ourselves into a corner. Not sure what happens when you need more "bespoke" functionality. I didn't really look into it at all, maybe I don't need to worry?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thankyou for the awesome library! I have a question. Is there a way to use HTMX with minimal server side changes. Specifically if I have an existing page that you fill in a form and submit and response is of course the entire page. I think it would be cool to tell htmx that the whole page is being returned BUT I only want to update #my-form and that way you don’t need any “if htmx request” kinda stuff on the server.…
If I understood correctly, you can achive this with `hx-target` and `hx-select` - I'm doing this in an app to replace an editor content based on which link is clicked. - https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-select/ - https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-target/
Oh that's neat - so you can return more than htmx will use and it can select the element it needs in the response and discard the rest
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#50Are there any companies using htmx? Places where we can see examples of complex interaction?
> complex interaction Yeah, htmx looks endearingly simple but I worry we might be painting ourselves into a corner. Not sure what happens when you need more "bespoke" functionality. I didn't really look into it at all, maybe I don't need to worry?
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