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Can you say more about what didn't work with HTMX? What parts make terrible DX?

I also think HTMX is meant mostly for backend developers to be more productive in frontend.

My experience with it is, one there’s no decent templater for nodejs, two this web1 like architecture really makes no sense as a developer. Everything is a subpage transfer rather than a meaningful operation/update. I came from desktop ui background (delphi, vb, gtk, qt, appkit), not from web. The web is all fucked up, tbh, it’s not only htmx. But at least spas vaguely resemble how normal apps function.

I see. HTMX and others target the browser, which is primarily an HTML renderer. So there is nothing inherently bad about page transfers. That's what hypermedia is about.

React et al try to create a different paradigm on top of this. And that makes it like building a desktop UI AND a server app

To me, this is not in anyway better than building something for the browser - pages and html.

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