Comment by matthew-craig
10 hours ago
What about vibe coding makes HTMX something that you speak about in the past tense? Are you just generating frontends in vanilla JS now?
10 hours ago
What about vibe coding makes HTMX something that you speak about in the past tense? Are you just generating frontends in vanilla JS now?
For me, I know backend development really well, and HTML/CSS passably. HTMX has been much lower friction for me than learning JS frameworks, which tbh I didn't really enjoy, and they were constantly changing. But now, I had mostly leave the JS to Claude, and the HTMX draw has diminished a bit.
It's day job tasks/database CRUD, so I tell the LLM what I need. I used to write all my work apps in plain jane PHP/MySQL and I use that as a guide for the LLM, as in use this app as a guide on how I want things. The bonus of using plain PHP/MySQL/PDO is that the apps are small, so no issues with context windows or using complex frameworks.