Sure. There's that. But it doesn't progressively enhance. It doesn't even fail gracefully. It's just... nothing without JS. That's bad accessibility. For for-profit and institutional use cases that's fine. But if you're a human person and want to make a website that all human persons around the world can read, it's a bad fit.
Thanks for pointing out a mitigation. I'm confused though. How does "htmx sends a request header HX-Request: true with every request." happen without javascript? And does this imply you need a backend server that understands whatever this header is for the graceful fallback? Ie, it wouldn't work with just nginx...
Sure. There's that. But it doesn't progressively enhance. It doesn't even fail gracefully. It's just... nothing without JS. That's bad accessibility. For for-profit and institutional use cases that's fine. But if you're a human person and want to make a website that all human persons around the world can read, it's a bad fit.
That's incorrect. Htmx actually works really well with progressive enhancement, thanks to hx-boost. See https://dev.to/yawaramin/why-hx-boost-is-actually-the-most-i...
If you stick to GET and POST requests, you can ensure your app works almost exactly the same with or without JavaScript.
Thanks for pointing out a mitigation. I'm confused though. How does "htmx sends a request header HX-Request: true with every request." happen without javascript? And does this imply you need a backend server that understands whatever this header is for the graceful fallback? Ie, it wouldn't work with just nginx...
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