WIwinrid·Dec 19, 2023
yep, htmx will happily run that script. they even had this bug in their demos: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/pull/1995/files
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Great question! I'm more familiar with htmx than alpine (TIL!), although I've never used either one. I have read the excellent HyperMedia Systems book though, and I was nodding…
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9 sourcesI am! It's my first HTMX project but I am liking it so far. HTMX has a few quirks which it took me a while to understand, but since then it has worked pretty well -- the amount of HTMX "code" I've had to write is quite small compared to the amount of JS I'd normally have to write.
My main takeaways have been:
- It mostly just works and simplifies things, but:
- Working with page state (in my case, which sheet is loaded) in individual requests (like updating a cell) is a bit awkward -- you can either supply it via `hx-vals` or via setting a global hidden input which is specified via `hx-include`. I ended up going with the second approach due to https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/issues/1119 but it's not perfect -- in particular you need to duplicate specifying the input if you want to include additional inputs for some node.
- Error ha
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ndling is also a bit awkward, but it's not too bad once you get used to the idea that you should return HTML elements in 400s. I found https://htmx.org/extensions/response-targets/ helpful as well.
- Often HTML structure doesn't allow you to limit your request scope as much as you'd like. For me the big thing is I can't just replace one column since tables are row-major -- I have to replace the whole table if a column is modified.
I took a close look at htmx, and my impression is that the problems it addresses can be resolved with even fewer than its 4000 lines of JS [1], and without having to familiarize myself with its many opinionated approaches. The crux of the matter is to generate HTML on the server, as much as possible. I know how to achieve that without htmx.
The marketing materials for htmx are also a bit off-putting to me, and the authors seem to be enjoying fueling the flames of old and useless holy wars about what REST and hypermedia "actually" are, and how we all need to get back to basics, and remember to thank Ted Nelson before every meal, etc. Their online book spends something like 30 pages explaining what hypermedia is... [2]. I prefer not to sign up for a religion when I choose a JS framework (honestly, that's a bit hard these days :-/).
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2 points · Open discussionHTMX project has an impressive simplicity that is worth reading:
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/master/src/htmx....
In Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?I'm thrilled to see my project (https://mockoon.com) being part of this first cohort! It's a great opportunity but it's also good for open-source projects in general. It can only contribute to make our industry more sustainable.
Here is the list of the 20 projects that have been selected:
- https://github.com/analogjs/analog: Analog is a fullstack meta-framework to build applications and websites with Angular
- https://github.com/Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine: The Python web framework to build production-grade apps
- https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx: Makes AJAX, Web Sockets, etc. available directly in HTML
- https://github.com/code-hike/codehike: Tools for building all types of code walkthroughs: blogs, docs, slides, tutorials, etc.
- https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus: Friendly React-like GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and mor
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e, written in Rust.
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- https://github.com/FashionFreedom/Seamly2D: Design CAD to democratize and de-centralize fashion design & production.
- https://github.com/fastai/nbdev: Increase developer productivity by 10x with a new exploratory programming workflow.
- https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks: Open-source Qualtrics alternative
- https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet: Cross-platform application to comfortably monitor and analyse network traffic
- https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc: Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter.
- https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon: Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to design and run mock REST APIs.
- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt: An intuitive framework for building web applications, built for the edge.
- https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app: A dev-tool for web developers that aid in faster responsive web page development.
- https://github.com/simonw/datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
- https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder: The scientific Python development environment
- https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry: A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations
- https://github.com/termux/termux-app: A terminal emulator for Android that provides 2000+ linux packages to code on phone
- https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly: Poly is a fast, well tested Go package for engineering organisms.
- https://github.com/trpc/trpc: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. Never write another API contract again.
Edit: formatting and updated repo links
all the demos use a mock ajax request library (sinon) so we don't have to run a server
i intentionally introduced an 200ms delay so that you can see things like request indicators:
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/master/www/stati...
In Htmx 1.9.0 has been released> I’d love more tips for no-build-system javascript
1. MDN has a comprehensive guide on JavaScript modules [0]
2. A build system free way to build interactive websites could be to combine libraries like htmx[1] and or lit[2] or just the sub package lit-html[3]. Or just go with native web components and a bit of AJAX.
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
[1] https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx
[2] https://github.com/lit/lit
[3] https://github.com/lit/lit/tree/main/packages/lit-html
In Writing JavaScript without a build systemActually, HTMX has a fundamental flaw if it comes to history restoration: In some scenarios it takes snapshots of the DOM for history navigation, just before navigating away from a page. If the DOM was previously modified by other JS libraries like Alpine, jQuery or any other tool, these changes end up in the history snapshot, leading to unexpected results [1]. I've had a much smoother experience with Alpine + swup [2]. Disclaimer: I became a maintainer of swup this year.
[1] https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/issues/1015
[2] https://github.com/swup/swup
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