- the placement of the hypermedia response to that HTTP request
In this sense, htmx adds functionality to (or, more dramatically, "completes") HTML.
This is in contrast with, for example, https://unpoly.com, which also uses HTML-over-the-wire, but provides higher level concepts (e.g. layers) and isn't as focused on generalizing hypermedia controls. This has advantages, unpoly gives you more functionality out of the box, but puts it further way from being a pure conceptual HTML extension.
i discuss this extensively in chapter 4 of our book:
https://hypermedia.systems/extending-html-as-hypermedia/
the tldr is that htmx generalizes:
- the event that triggers an HTTP request
- the element that triggers an HTTP request
- the type of the HTTP request
- the placement of the hypermedia response to that HTTP request
In this sense, htmx adds functionality to (or, more dramatically, "completes") HTML.
This is in contrast with, for example, https://unpoly.com, which also uses HTML-over-the-wire, but provides higher level concepts (e.g. layers) and isn't as focused on generalizing hypermedia controls. This has advantages, unpoly gives you more functionality out of the box, but puts it further way from being a pure conceptual HTML extension.