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Comment by yawaramin

21 hours ago

How is htmx ‘just as JS compute heavy’? It’s doing way less than your average SPA. Have you seen the sizes of the JS bundles of popular SPAs? They make htmx look microscopic in comparison.

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troupo  16 hours ago

It's a 14kb library that invents its own templating syntax and DSL and also requires the backend to conform to its DSL.

Yes, it's smaller than some other frameworks, but let's stop with "doesn't require JS" nd other bullshit

  • yawaramin  11 hours ago

    It doesn’t have its own templating syntax, it just uses server side HTML generation. It doesn’t require the backend to ‘conform’ to anything, it works with very standard HTTP forms and HTML responses. I’m afraid you’re very confused!

    • troupo  10 hours ago

      > It doesn’t have its own templating syntax

      What do you think hx-get and hx-trigger="input changed delay:1s" are? Standard browser attributes? Standard browser functionality and behaviour? Standard events syntax?

      > It doesn’t require the backend to ‘conform’ to anything,

      Just one of the quotes from the docs: "You would need to check on the server side for the HX-Request header to differentiate between an htmx-driven and a regular request, to determine exactly what to render to the client."

      > I’m afraid you’re very confused!

      I'm afraid I'm not

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