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Re:The Future of Htmx by maddalax on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @01:11PM (#42625408)
I'm the creator of https://htmgo.dev and I'll say that is definitely the biggest issue I've run into with htmx. It's definitely not an overall replacement, you will have to either rebuilt the date picker from scratch in js, or find a vanilla js library

so unfortunately the major downside I see so far is it's fairly hard to find good open source vanilla js libraries for things, as most things seem to be written for react.

other examples include: - virtualized list - combobox

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Re:The Future of Htmx by malteg on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @05:16AM (#42632740)
Iam using templ https://templ.guide/ in combination with htmx. I rebuilded various of html components of https://www.patternfly.org/components/all-components/ - but as you mentioned, I also couldnt find good vanilla JS libraries for more complex components - and I dont feel I am capable to build a e.g. battle tested datepicker from scratch.

How others handle this?

P.S. I have seen some people using e.g. flowbite, but I havent tried it out: https://github.com/themesberg/flowbite/issues/812

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