🔥 ReactJS devs should try htmx

htmx is the new (old) hotness that lets you right reactive frontends with any backend server. Here's how it works and why React devs should care!

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[NotMarkKnopfler]

FFS we've been doing that with ASP and PHP since the 90's.

[turolretar]

I write HTML by hand on each user request. This way each time you visit the site, it’s personalized. No point in making this harder than it needs to be bro

[mbahmusalto]

So awesome how current dev would recommend previous gen engineering strategies

[deadchannel]

From my experience with htmx, it’s pretty good for basic CRUD operations, but for any complex state you need js.

[ward]

Ah, the usual "we lack something" -> "this is too much" cycle.

[SaintPepsiSanCoca]

Now all your client side state can be written in the backend! "Let's just move bikini bottom away!!"

[danny__]

They actually invented what we were doing with servlets and scriplets about 20 years ago.

[JackHartwig]

Very clean and simple explanation. Nice.

[Ctrl_Alt_Elite]

Jesus I've never seen a more pessimistic comment section in my life 😂

[abdelazizabdelioua]

Just compare an app that renders in the backend with an SPA app on a midrange mobile phone, then you will see why its better to render in the backend.

[Dev-Siri]

modern react developers now use server actions instead of an event handler (most of the time that is)

[benbowers]

The alpine-ajax plugin for alpineJS gets you pretty close to this functionality, which is nice if you like alpine already

[anricoj]

It’s a cool idea I guess, but i’d rather not have to write endpoints that return html

[thecodeburger]

This vid is what sealed it for me trying HTMX.

[allessandro]

With htmx you have to do frontend work in backend.
I actually like the idea of only sending and receiving data. But I admit I like the attributes in general.

[nathymangaYT]

There's only one big issue with htmx : front and back are too tightly coupled

[nanonkay]

Does that mean this only works with servers that return html dom elements and not JSON?

[RayZde]

You'll be hunting down a typo for hours using this method.

[taimurqureshi]

How is being able to work with multiple BE services more flexible? Its already happening currently

[JohnTubeK]

Wow you just showed a servlet architecture that just returns HTML…. This is an old architecture framework from the 90’s that was re-imagined as HTMX.