Htmx – high power tools for HTML

hello, I'm the creator of htmx (and originally intercooler) I just released 0.0.4, so htmx is still very young, but it's got a decent test suite: https://htmx.org/test/0.0.4/test/ there is a nice extension mechanism: https://htmx.org/extensions/ and some very rough docs on how to pull off pure HTML animations: https://htmx.org/examples/animations/ happy to answer questions

I have immensely enjoyed and benefited from using htmx for the past 18 months on projects with Clojure as the backend language. I had done years of full-stack Angular then React on the front-end and Java Rest endpoints on the back-end with teams of all sizes. htmx has been a revelation and has really opened my eyes to the nuances of hypermedia development modalities that I was ignorant of. For me, it has become very clear that htmx and hypermedia…

I do really appreciate that HTMX has a curated list of criticisms on their blog: https://htmx.org/essays/#on-the-other-hand

This looks interesting to me, because it promises the ability to create fully interactive website with only knowing HTML and any backend technology (no JS needed). Not sure, if it can keep up with that expectation. There was an interesting podcast episode djangochat on htmx: https://djangochat.com/episodes/htmx-carson-gross-ep95-repla...