And I still don’t get all the hype and marketing around it.
Unpoly is so much better in every way you look at it.
Most people seem to be using it just because “it’s popular” which ironically is the reason most people use React as well.
Unpoly is so much better in every way you look at it.
Most people seem to be using it just because “it’s popular” which ironically is the reason most people use React as well.
htmx is lower level but has a bit more mechanical sympathy w/normal HTML: more work for some things, but less magic too. it's focused on generalizing hypermedia controls, as outlined here:
https://hypermedia.systems/extending-html-as-hypermedia/
there is a terrible simplicity to htmx that I think many developers find attractive after a decade of heaping complexity on top of web development
my ability to market htmx has surprised me as well, i have been silly on twitter for a long time now, but for whatever reason it recently started working
Unpoly also has many more features you’d have to add code for.
Once you get past the simple landing page or hello world app all those things you call “bloat” come in super handy. Otherwise you end up with a custom undocumented untested unproven probably insecure rushed out implementation of what the “bloated” solution gives you. Same applies for Unpoly vs htmx. Unless you’re building just a hello world landing page, as I said.