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Re:Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator by gochi on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:31AM (#37147636)
Not sure you've solved the complexity when you've just slotted in another front to a general solution that is over-engineered. You could have replaced either scenarios with a single NextJS or SvelteKit solution. Go above and beyond in "complexity", write your Node backend (keeping it one language, JavaScript), and use vanilla HTML and JS to consume that.

To me, htmx isn't as revolutionary as people make it out to be, and possibly that's due to the fact I'm just not burdened by the old days of gigantic Angular apps and massive ASP.Net stacks. My history was mostly JQuery where needed (which was all the time before JS got its act together).

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Re:Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator by adamckay on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:04PM (#37151108)
> My history was mostly JQuery where needed (which was all the time before JS got its act together).

htmx should remind you of those times.

I certainly has for me - it's just (fundamentally) a fancy and clever wrapper around jQuery ajax requests made via HTML attributes.

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Re:Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator by sznio on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:43AM (#37158462)
> You could have replaced either scenarios with a single NextJS or SvelteKit solution.

But then I would be using only JS. I want a backend to be something else so that I don't go insane.

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