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Re:Htmx Is the Future by lucasyvas on Friday May 05, 2023 @01:28PM (#35832454)
You're on the money with this assessment. It's all bandwagon hopping without any consideration for reality.

Also, all these things the author complains about are realities of native apps, which still exist in massive numbers especially on mobile! I appreciate that some folks only need to care about the web, but declaring an architectural pattern as superior - in what appears to be a total vacuum - is how we all collectively arrive at shitty architecture choices time and time again.

Unfortunately, you have to understand all the patterns and choose when each one is optimal. It's all trade-offs - HTMX is compelling, but basing your entire architectural mindset around a library/pattern tailored to one very specific type of client is frankly stupid.

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Re:Htmx Is the Future by recursivedoubts on Friday May 05, 2023 @01:36PM (#35832553)
agreed:

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

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Re:Htmx Is the Future by megalord on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:56PM (#35835589)
> to one very specific type of client is frankly stupid

However, I see this specific type of clients that need just basic web functionalities, e.g CRUD operations and build something basic more prevalent than those that need very instant in-app reactivity and animations and so on (React, and SPA ecosystem).

Nowadays that's exactly the opposite, every web developer assumes SPA as default option, even on these simple CRUD examples.

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