> Why not just write the js yourself? It's really not that complicated. The people who keep pushing for htmx are weird.
HTMX is great. We use it as a middle ground for mildly interactive parts of the app. Places where jquery/vanilla would get annoying but going full React isn’t worth it. Admin interfaces in particular are a great fit – lots of CRUD, mildly interactive, very repetitive.
Adding `hx-get` to a button or div is way way quicker than writing all that boilerplate javascript yet again for the hundredth time.
Extra bonus: it encourages you to write small self-contained composable endpoints instead of massive kitchen-sink pages.
> Admin interfaces in particular are a great fit – lots of CRUD, mildly interactive, very repetitive. Adding `hx-get` to a button or div is way way quicker than writing all that boilerplate javascript yet again for the hundredth time.
Yes. Then imagine you have a massive legacy codebase and a control panel of something has a ton of data and buttons and inputs and all kinds of nonsense. Say you have a weight and dimensions of a package of a product... you'd like to make it so you can edit these in-place and when you do, a package volume (and/or volume sum of all packages) gets updated somewhere else on the page (along with some other info... I don't know, an estimate of product delivery cost based on volume, which delivery methods are now un/available etc.)
Like... you already have ways to calculate and show these in your server side logic. With HTMX you reuse these, add a sprinkle of hx-get and add some OOB updates and you're done. You can do the same with ajax, but not nearly as fast as with HTMX and much more annoyingly...
HTMX is great. We use it as a middle ground for mildly interactive parts of the app. Places where jquery/vanilla would get annoying but going full React isn’t worth it. Admin interfaces in particular are a great fit – lots of CRUD, mildly interactive, very repetitive.
Adding `hx-get` to a button or div is way way quicker than writing all that boilerplate javascript yet again for the hundredth time.
Extra bonus: it encourages you to write small self-contained composable endpoints instead of massive kitchen-sink pages.