Comment by masfoobar

Yes - how you likely built websites in 2000's era (possibly with Classic ASP or PHP4 .. maybe Perl?) is the sort of websites we are addressing with HTMX.

It's bringing us back to that sort of web development but with modern tools and technology.

For the server side, we can use modern languages with better templating for html.

For the client, with htmx, you can do a lot of javascript such as ajax calls (load, trigger, etc) without writing javascript. With htmx you specify what you want to do inside html attributes.

So my actual javascript code ends up minimal.

I have been doing website dev since 2008. I've worked with PHP, C# (WebForms, MVC), a bit of python... not to mention maintaining an old website in Classic ASP.

2008-2010 I used C# WebForms. I didn't like it, but we still kept it simple, returning data from server side to html.

2010 I started to enjoy jQuery and saw potential returning data. Opened the door to provide more options for webdev.

Around 2014, I've started disagreeing with "modern website development" learning knockoutjs, requirejs, to eventually angularjs, npm's, etc. Sure, I learned and pushed forward but websites seemed to become more a chore and bloat overtime. Personally, I've not really invested in React.

I was starting to go round full circle to the 'old ways' just with modern tech. To me, htmx just makes webdev even more smoother.