I Switched from Htmx to Datastar

Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by stronglikedan on Friday October 10, 2025 @10:08AM (#45539272)

> if the HTML element doesn't hold the information about where to inject the HTML fragment returned by the server, the server has to know it, so you have to write it somewhere on that side

I'm not too strong in frontend, but wouldn't this make for a lighter, faster front end? Especially added up over very many elements?

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Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by sudodevnull on Friday October 10, 2025 @11:20AM (#45540030)

100%. Datastar is just make HTML spec support reactive expression in data-* attributes, that's it. You will become stronger at web cause it just gets out of your way

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Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by yawaramin on Friday October 10, 2025 @11:16PM (#45546295)

I don't think the difference would be significant. How many of your HTML elements would become interactive with htmx? There's a limit to how much interaction you can reasonably add on a page. This will also limit the number of new attributes you will introduce in the markup.

Also, by this argument should we leave out the 'href' attribute from the '<a>' tag and let the server decide what page to serve? Of course not, the 'href' attribute is a critical part of the functionality of HTML.

Htmx makes the same argument for the other attributes.

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