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Wasn’t HTMX just a meme? I can’t really tell if it’s serious because of Poe’s Law.

htmx sucks:

well, at least he is (you are?) consistent in this style of criticizing others' ideas with satirical sarcasm fueled prose focused on tearing down straw men.

exactly!

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So it is bad?

Definitely for some stuff!

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/

https://htmx.org/essays/#on-the-other-hand

If you read this and concluded that it's bad, then you probably shouldn't use it.

Solopreneur making use of it in my bootstrapped B2B SaaS business. Clients don't need or want anything flashy. There are islands of interactivity, and some HTMX sprinkled there has been a great fit.

Using HTMX in my B2B SaaS allowed me to enjoy coding for the web again. I had lost that joy somewhere along the way.

And our customers seem very content with the way our product works.

(For the record: yes, it’s a stable, profitable, long-established product.)

Wish I had your clients, instead of ones that say a page needs more “pizazz!”

The pizazz clients want sites for their customers, the no-frills clients want sites for them to use themselves.

I’m getting zombo.com vibes from this client request.

you can do anything at Zombocom!

I started using htmx relatively early on, because its a more elegant version of what I've been doing anyways for a series of projects.

It's very effective, simple and expressive to work this way, as long as you keep in mind that some client side rendering is fine.

There are a few bits I don't like about it, like defaulting to swap innerHTML instead of outerHTML, not swapping HTML when the status code isn't 200-299 by default and it has some features that I avoid, like inline JSON on buttons instead of just using forms.

Other than that, it's great. I can also recommend reading the book https://hypermedia.systems/.

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