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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by loloquwowndueo on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:02AM (#37197698)
You can still return html partials from your endpoints and use htmx to swap content without a full reload :)
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by JaggerJo on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:05AM (#37197714)
yes, but then it’s not one request per page
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by loloquwowndueo on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:15AM (#37197740)
Only if there’s an update - htmx will encourage you to render full html pages but still gives you the ability to do in-place updates which is what most folks think a JS front end with a json Api backend and client side rendering is needed for.
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by halfcat on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:40AM (#37198537)
HTMX can swap multiple DOM elements from a single HTTP response

https://htmx.org/extensions/multi-swap/

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