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Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

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Re: Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

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Post by renegade-otter »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #56

One of the happiest days of coding in the last 10 years for me happened in September last year when I added htmx to an internal self serve web app I develop for our company. With the addition of maybe 5 htmx attributes I was able to delete about 500 lines of client side JS. The app is now chock full of htmx interactions and has very little client side JS for the size of the app and it’s a joy to work on. Without htmx…

I would say, this and the CSS grid/flex system has made web development almost... enjoyable.

Re: Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

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Post by DLA »

synergy20 wrote: post #138
DLA wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are building an enterprise application that manages (create, update data) and interacts with (read, display, enable user to browse via linked entities) a large-scale knowledge graph. In some views we have live updates from the server with SSEs (alerts, logs, etc.). Everything is rendered server side with Go + stdlib templates, Material Design Bootstrap for CSS, and HTMX for all the in interactive bits like fetchin…

do you use alpinejs for better client side reactivity?

We use the alpinejs for when we choose not to round trip the server (like data validators, for example) and for cases when we need to do some client side JSON work. Mostly htmx handles what we need. You could also consider it’s client-side template rendering extension, as needed.

Re: Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

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Post by RobotCoder »

My hot take: We initially used this library to allow us to iterate faster. But its is a pain once you reach a certain point, where it doesn't make sense to have this type of logic in HTML. I especially don't like how this library does error handling. I feel like this is the new jQuery. There is better way to represent interaction logic with open JS standards like Web Components.

Re: Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

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Post by ranger_danger »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #108
ghnws wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm qurious what that code was doing that could be just moved to the backend. Usually forms have some validation for a better experience with the final validation on the server. Did you get rid of that and just show an error if the submission failed?

Near enough yes but it was a nice helpful error message with the form fully populated as they left it - as far as it looks the user it’s client side validation as the service responds with just the correct html for the form and htmx swaps out the chunk of html. Its like old school for validation back in the CodeIgniter days.

So the 500 lines removed was literally just removing functionality in the first place (you should always validate on both sides anyway).

Re: Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

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RobotCoder wrote: post #143

My hot take: We initially used this library to allow us to iterate faster. But its is a pain once you reach a certain point, where it doesn't make sense to have this type of logic in HTML. I especially don't like how this library does error handling. I feel like this is the new jQuery. There is better way to represent interaction logic with open JS standards like Web Components.

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Re: Htmx 2.0.0 has been released

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Post by knighthack »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #2

hey folks, i'm the creator of htmx this isn't much of a feature upgrade, but we took the opportunity to clean up a few things and drop IE support, which will help us slim down the library over time hopefully it's an easy upgrade for most htmx users, upgrade guide is here: https://htmx.org/migration-guide-htmx-1/ happy to answer any questions

Hey Carson! I'm using HTMX on quite a number of internal tools. It's completely revolutioned the way we've done things, especially coupled with Django. Extremely grateful for your work - you're a net positive for humanity.
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