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Any server-side language with your favorite web-framework and HTML templates system. Static files, PHP, Go, Ruby, ASP.NET Core, Spring etc, as long as you can send HTML pages and HTML partials, you are all set

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Thanks. So a static site, on neocities.org, for instance can serve files in response to requests such as the examples using hx-swap="outerHtml". Is there a simple example of a static site using Htmx somewhere?

> So a static site, on neocities.org, for instance can serve files in response to requests such as the examples using hx-swap="outerHtml"

Exactly. It can serve HTML partials, or utilize `hx-select` attribute to extract required elements from a full page

> Is there a simple example of a static site using Htmx somewhere?

Not that I'm aware of unfortunately

The code is not done yet but I can explain how we're going to use htmx and Hypermedia APIs for the static site of a national chess federation (it's static to avoid hacking/ddos from disgruntled russians). Every week, new chess ratings are calculated from the reports of in-person / over-the-board tournaments. At build-time (Hugo/Netlify), a static HTML fragment is created for each member and included in the site's static files. At run-time, when a member's info is requested, htmx will fetch the member's HTML fragment and insert it into the appropriate <div>. At run-time, there is no server-side code executing nor database so it's fast, highly available, and almost unhackable.

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