jte VS htmx-demo

For java/Kotlin, we are using JTE (https://jte.gg/#getting-started), pretty nice build tooling and IDE support to generate pre-compiled templates without additional code generation steps.

Thanks for the hints! I created an issue for this: https://github.com/casid/jte/issues/240

JTE is a template engine for Java/Kotlin that I've started using recently. While trying to integrate tailwind I've run into issue with the (notorious) IntelliJ tailwind plugin. I've opened a ticket with JetBrains to ask that they add *.kte and *.jte file extensions to the tailwind plugin. If anyone else is keen for this change to be made, please upvote the linked ticket.

Instead of using commonly used frameworks (like Spring Framework) I preffered to use something that is small and doesn't have "magic" in it. So I've chosen Javalin as a simple web framework, added MongoDB client libraries nad jte as template engine. To show that simple and clean looking apps doesn't need any big JS libraries I've selected chota - one of micro CSS frameworks.

Because the code is generated Java code the runtime dependency is minimal and I plan on offering a zero dependency runtime version. I believe to have one of the smallest footprints of Java templating languages and is as fast as jte.

A microframework or Spring Boot + Template Engine such as jte or Thymeleaf gets you far.

I can highly recommend https://github.com/casid/jte

Simple example: https://github.com/wiverson/htmx-demo

I have personally found a combination of htmx and Alpine.js to be very effective for my projects. Here's a demo project for using Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and htmx together. Here's a video on using Spring Boot w/htmx. That said, there is currently no job market for this kind of thing, although (crossed-fingers) that will change over the next few years.

However, I'd also like to make my apps have more dynamic, "single page app" (SPA) like features. I've been doing some experiments with htmx.org and Spring Boot/Thymeleaf and it's been fantastic so far (I'm posting my experiments at https://github.com/wiverson/htmx-demo).