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Please do a write up of the best practices you've found. I tried htmx a few years ago for a side project and while I appreciated the simplicity of a lot of it, I had trouble understanding how/when to use it and in what ways. I think I was trying to contort it too much into my understanding of api/spa. That or my interactivity needs were too complex for it, I can't tell.

These days, I admit, though, the ship has sailed for me and htmx. My main app frontend is React and since the LLMs all know much more than I do about how to build out UIs and are 100x faster than me, I'll probably be sticking with React.

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https://dev.to/yawaramin/why-hx-boost-is-actually-the-most-i...

https://dev.to/yawaramin/handling-form-errors-in-htmx-3ncg

That is what DATAOS.software is all about. It is a manifesto of my proposed best practices somewhat like Hypermedia Systems, but more hands on, more of a cookbook.

Interesting read. I haven't quite finished it all. I haven't ever needed anything like that when writing web pages with HTMX, html-form (my own), nor htmz-be (another one I wrote based off of htmz but the back end decided where the HTML will go, similar to data-star and nomini). When I write code from the back end and target the front end I can use middleware to common updates.

Here's the most complex app I've made with it. The most complex part of the app is the match page. I just use morphdom for that part of the app and it makes it super easy, I just send the whole main part of the page back and let a dom diff happen.

https://github.com/jon49/Soccer

Here's an example offline-first hypermedia-driven soccer application. The match page is the most complex part of the application and I use Morphdom to just do a diff on the main section of the page. I find hypermedia-driven development to be super simple.

I find React to be really complex. What normally takes me just some HTML rendered from the back end and some interactivity on the front end can be done in just a few lines of code, but React takes 10s of lines of code for what I can write in a single line of code using vanilla js. The virtual dom causes it to make everything state. I always find it odd that people reach for that as their front end. I could understand something like Svelte, but even that is too complex for my needs. But I'm always writing CRUD apps, so there is some complexity but not that much, React just makes something that was simple, super complex.

https://github.com/jon49/Soccer

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