Comment by ecshafer
2 days ago
I just cant say enough how much I love HTMX. I got my feet wet doing hotwire/turbo in rails, and htmx is really just such a wonderful expansion of thise ideas. Making reactive app experiences on the web with a tiny js bundle and just writing html feels how web programming should be. I am writing a UI with Spring Boot + Thymleaf + HTMX and Alpine JS, and its the smoothest java based web dev experience ive had in so long. I can look at a page I write in HTMX, and I KNOW if I wrote that in react or angular or vue it would be 50x more complex.
I’ve had a similar experience. HTMX really shifts the complexity back to the server in a way that feels more honest and easier to reason about.
For many apps, especially CRUD-style or internal tools, it removes a lot of accidental complexity without giving up interactivity. The trade-off seems worth it unless you truly need a highly stateful client.