Re:Htmx and the Rule of Least Power
by naasking on Saturday April 13, 2024 @11:12AM
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Server rendered content has had 25+ years of development and the approaches and constraints are well understood. Client-side rendering has arguably had less than 10 years of development and the approaches and constraints are still fragmented and poorly understood. The maturity and simplicity of server side rendering shouldn't be underestimated.
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I was writing SPAs with jQuery in 2008. By then they were already well-established. We used UI component libraries (mostly custom) on frontend and AJAX for server updates in XML/JSON format. They were hard to build compared to today, but "less than 10 years" of SPA development is simply incorrect.