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bang on, especially that last part

a bit focus of htmx, alpinejs (and htmx's sister project, https://hyperscript.org) is putting the logic on the element, so you can see exactly what a button, etc. does just by looking at it, and without trawling through ten files of indirection

i am trying to popularize the term Locality of Behavior to describe this design goal:

https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/

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I'm curious about your thoughts on that locality of behavior idea vs aspects of precision and composability. For example, the argument goes that the behavior of `hx-get` is obvious upon inspection, but the terseness is achieved by omitting the event type (i.e. it's assumed/implied that hx-get runs on click). The quintessential widget where that breaks down is the table w/ checkboxes for batch operations over an arbitrary subset of rows. That's where less DSL-ish frameworks' abstraction via state management tend to shine, since they allow the developer to more precisely specify how disparate checkboxes relate to a bigger picture that may also involve table sorting (both client and server varieties) or nested modal structures or other forms of complexity.

Button should not have any behavior, it should generate an event. Your app can have one or multiple listeners for this event. This pattern is battle-tested for decades.

Why? Have any reading on this?

Of course :) Have you tried to find something before asking?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget...

1.) Don't be a jackass.

2.) I know what reactive programming is, I make extensive use of RxJS at work. And I obviously know what an event listener is. I was asking why is it wrong to have the button have functionality and only emit events. And I did google that, but nothing from your comment you posted that I googled lead to anything about reactive programming.

OK, but the response to that event should be localized to the button.

https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/

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