Scott and Wes unravel the mysteries of HTMX, exploring the essentials for getting started, its powerful capabilities, limitations, and possible stacks for building primarily server rendered applications.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome
02:07 Brought to you by Sentry.io
02:53 What exactly is HTMX?
04:30 What you need to know before working in HTMX.
04:35 You need a server.
05:35 You'll most likely need a templating engine.
06:42 You most likely do not need as much client-side JS.
08:33 You don't work in JSON
11:15 Not something you can swap out your UI with in a SPA.
11:48 Brings back AJAX
13:32 So, what can it do?
15:20 And what it doesn't do.
18:25 It doesn't do server-side responses.
19:09 What about animations?
19:20 What about CSS?
19:57 What about Web Components?
20:06 What about third-party client-side JS?
20:18 What about WebSockets and SSE?
20:30 What about extensions?
21:00 Wes' "bomb" question.
24:16 What Scott likes about HTMX.
25:45 What Scott doesn't like about HTMX.
30:33 Hype, Meta Framework.

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