htmx-components VS jimm.horse

I agree with this article, however I think that HTMX needs a strong server framework to support HTMX. I've thought about this alot and a couple months back created this deno / typescript framework https://github.com/reggi/htmx-components, would love for people to take a look at it and provide guidance and direction for a releasable version.

My own website is a kind of hybrid SSR/SPA in PHP. Navigating pages with JS enabled seamlessly updates the relevant DOM nodes with an AJAX call (and uses the history API etc), but going to a page fresh is entirely PHP.

It was fun to write. Relevant code is here:

https://github.com/ldyeax/jimm.horse/blob/master/j/j.php

https://github.com/ldyeax/jimm.horse/blob/cb6a1c03504cbe6b63...

I actually uncovered a niche bug across multiple browsers with this PHP code. In at least Firefox and Edge, if a page is cached with a fetch using accept:text/json, the response will be shown from view-source of the html page you have open, even if the content is different when you fetch the page with accept:text/html

I've made my personal website something of a hybrid SPA. WithJS enabled it only loads and replaces the relevant portions of the page, but a page renders fully from PHP going to it directly.

Relevant code:

https://github.com/ldyeax/jimm.horse/blob/master/j/j.php

https://github.com/ldyeax/jimm.horse/blob/master/j/component...

The JS would be much more elegant if script tags didn't need special handling to execute on insertion.

The experience is very seamless this way - I'm very pleased with it. It's live at https://sfw.jimm.horse - the dynamic behavior can be found clicking through the icons on the bottom.