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Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Re: Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Post by _jackdk_ »

mlhpdx wrote: post #108
_jackdk_ wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is not a use cases I would've expected Step Functions to handle; I'm intrigued. You're using express ones, I assume, but how are you wiring them up and why?

API Gateway direct integration to Step Functions. Unlike Lambda, there is not automatic transform for requests so I just wrote one and copy/paste it to each method integration (via a preprocess script; one of the ugly bits). Yes, EXPRESS state machines. I’ve found they have better tail latency behavior, and of course they involve zero patching/dependency updates which is nice. The state machines use JSONata for the s…

Thanks for replying, that's an interesting architecture. The idea of using a high-up parallel state seems particularly neat as a way to ensure every part of the page render stays independent, and to burst up the compute serving the response.

Re: Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Post by SpaceNoodled »

sublinear wrote: post #90
blister wrote: post #6

I've been using htmx for three years now, and it's completely unlocked new ways of building software for the web, especially if you use a server-side templating language. But more importantly (as this "Game Boy" option reveals), the head honcho is really responsive with the items in the store. I had purchased a coffee mug a few years back and complained on Twitter that they need to sell larger mugs instead of only of…

So you drink weak coffee and insist on server-side rendering in 2026?

The server SHOULD do the rendering. It's a SERVER, not a give-me-a-bunch-of-bloated-junk-and-make-me-do-it-myself-er.

Re: Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Post by sroerick »

andy800 wrote: post #102

Amazing... an HTMX thread without any haters interjecting or critics telling everyone why HTMX wont work. Even React-aholics have to tip their hats to a Game Boy release.

Crazy how much things have shifted since a few years ago

Re: Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Post by gawa »

gen220 wrote: post #37

Thank you to the HTMX-folks for keeping software fun! I've been a happy HTMX user and Grug essay forwarder since it first made the rounds here on HN. This was an instant purchase :)

Ooh, I didn't know the creator of htmx was also the author of the Grug Brained Developer! [0][1]

TIL. Thanks! Now all the Grug references in the shop make sense, as well as the wisdom and overall vibe of the htmx project :)

[0] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2336201/complexity-bad-an-...

[1] https://grugbrain.dev/

Re: Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Post by evenhash »

sublinear wrote: post #90
blister wrote: post #6

I've been using htmx for three years now, and it's completely unlocked new ways of building software for the web, especially if you use a server-side templating language. But more importantly (as this "Game Boy" option reveals), the head honcho is really responsive with the items in the store. I had purchased a coffee mug a few years back and complained on Twitter that they need to sell larger mugs instead of only of…

So you drink weak coffee and insist on server-side rendering in 2026?

In 2026, everything is server side. Serve your DOM updates encoded in JSON if you want. Personally, I find serving them in HTML to be less of a hassle.

Re: Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Post by WD-42 »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #35
WD-42 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait but where do we get a gameboy?

modretro has new ones https://modretro.com/products/chromatic-tetris-bundle you can find cheaper ones on amazon/temu too

Do they license from Nintendo or something? I thought this kind of stuff was lawyer bait.

Re: Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Post by sixdimensional »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #93

What I don't like about Htmx is, that it is still a JS framework, without good automatic fallbacks for a noscript situation. This leads to web devs thinking it would be great to do all the things in Htmx, even if all they have is a static page with static content. Just recently I looked at hosting an old school forum. I don't want to load all the PHP and MySQL baggage on my server or even run it in docker, so I looke…

It's too bad Htmx isn't just the native behavior of HTML, implemented in a cross-platform standard, that does not need to rely on Javascript in user space code. It could just be part of the browser. It should have been part of the browser.

It's awesome, I'm not criticizing Htmx at all to be clear, I am criticizing our seemingly inability to advance the core web technology of HTML in browsers to include this kind of tech natively.

If somebody from the WhatWG, e.g. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Opera, and Mozilla, etc. wants to embrace and support the creators of Htmx and wrap this into the browser natively, I will proudly retract my comment.

Re: Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

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Post by BbzzbB »

sixdimensional wrote: post #119
zelphirkalt wrote: post #93

What I don't like about Htmx is, that it is still a JS framework, without good automatic fallbacks for a noscript situation. This leads to web devs thinking it would be great to do all the things in Htmx, even if all they have is a static page with static content. Just recently I looked at hosting an old school forum. I don't want to load all the PHP and MySQL baggage on my server or even run it in docker, so I looke…

It's too bad Htmx isn't just the native behavior of HTML, implemented in a cross-platform standard, that does not need to rely on Javascript in user space code. It could just be part of the browser. It should have been part of the browser. It's awesome, I'm not criticizing Htmx at all to be clear, I am criticizing our seemingly inability to advance the core web technology of HTML in browsers to include this kind of t…

I recall that was the intent of HTMX? His dream being to steer HTML towards these kinds of primitives and HTMX becoming deprecated.
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