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Post by criddell » Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 7:54 PM UTC

recursivedoubts wrote: post #318

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What are technical differences between HTMX and early versions of Angular 1? It has the same idea of sprinkling some attributes over HTML to make it dynamic for easy cases. There were many frameworks that started like this (Angular 1, Vue, etc), and after getting some traction they grew into full-blown SPA frameworks, because there is a real need for more difficult cases. If I had to pick an “Angular-1-like” framewor…

htmx uses hypermedia, rather than client-side managed state as much as possible, htmx tries to take HTML to its logical conclusion (from my perspective) as a hypermedia, rather than imposing other ideas on top of it

Post by nchmy » Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 7:56 PM UTC

intrasight wrote: post #286

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Mobile phones have less powerful CPUs. Parsing large json objects and then building up a corresponding html structure may be more difficult than on the server (where you already have it loaded into memory anyway).

> Mobile phones have less powerful CPUs True - but not by much > Parsing large json objects and then building up a corresponding html structure may be more difficult than on the server I doubt it. And you'd only be doing "large JSON objects" for a desktop web app, where CPU differences vs web servers are even smaller > where you already have it loaded into memory anyway Likely not true if implementation uses streamin…

Post by strangescript » Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 8:10 PM UTC

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #9

It's so odd to live long enough and see the steady pipeline of "look at this much simpler way of doing web apps, just write HTML, not like the previous complex way" projects, which then turn into the previous complex way as the eyes turn towards the next "simple way of doing web apps, just write HTML...". Angular and React started this way on the frontend, while ASP and PHP started this way on the backend (of course…

Post by beders » Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 8:12 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #381

recursivedoubts wrote: post #318

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htmx uses hypermedia, rather than client-side managed state as much as possible, htmx tries to take HTML to its logical conclusion (from my perspective) as a hypermedia, rather than imposing other ideas on top of it

You keep using the term hypermedia and I'm not certain what is meant by that term (I was thinking it referred to linked media). Hyper means over , right? So is hyper media more about the environment media is in than it is about links?

Post by nonethewiser » Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 8:22 PM UTC

riskable wrote: post #372

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As someone relatively new (few months in) to full-stack development, what can HTMX offer me? I've been semi interested since Prime mentioned it a handful of times, but I feel maybe I'm too new to fully understand what I gain from it. As soon as I'm finish with my current project, I'd like to check it out. For reference, I'm currently working within the T3 Stack.

HTMX is just a convenient way of handling user-initiated UI updates AJAX calls (for whatever purpose). So instead of writing some JavaScript that looks for a specific element to attach an `onclick` event and subsequently makes an AJAX call then again searches for an element on the page to update with the result you can put some (very simple) HTMX code in the HTML directly and it'll handle that sort of thing automatic…