Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it

Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by troupo on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:18PM (#45379236)

Simple things are simple everywhere.

And then suddenly you need to be aware of the quirks: https://htmx.org/quirks/

And then you need your backend to handle all the weird new headers: https://htmx.org/reference/#request_headers

And then you need to learn completely non-HTML things like "attribute inheritance" https://htmx.org/docs/#inheritance

And then you need to learn a whole new DSL https://htmx.org/docs/#trigger-modifiers

HTMX probably has more concepts than react at this point in time.

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Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by mixmastamyk on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:48PM (#45381230)

These examples are trivial and/or rare, especially in comparison to the monstrosity of a SPA framework. I picked up htmx in an hour or two.

I do think it is a bit overengineered however, though there are other implementations of the idea.

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Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by troupo on Friday September 26, 2025 @01:45AM (#45383093)

> comparison to the monstrosity of a SPA

What you call "monstrosity" is just as trivial and rare.

See how this works?

You claimed that HTMX doesn't require learning new paradigms. When it's actually a new paradigm replete with multiple different requirements, custom DSLs, new behaviors etc.

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Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by mixmastamyk on Friday September 26, 2025 @12:16PM (#45388158)

It uses html’s paradigm. You keep using the term DSL as if it’s appreciably different than “put a string in an attribute.”

Htmx is an order of magnitude easier to get started with for a person who knows html, ask me how I know.

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Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by CooCooCaCha on Friday September 26, 2025 @10:39AM (#45387033)

You don’t have to use an SPA framework. Hopefully you don’t think you need one to use react.

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