Phoenix VS htmx

Compare Phoenix vs htmx and see what are their differences.

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Phoenix htmx
111 565
20,558 32,443
0.8% 5.9%
9.4 9.6
6 days ago 6 days ago
Elixir JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Phoenix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Phoenix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.
  • Idempotent seeds in Elixir
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024
    A standard Phoenix app contains a priv/repo/seeds.exs script file, which populates a database when it is run, so that developers can work with a conveniently prepared environment.
  • Ask HN: Did you encounter any Leap Year bugs today? How bad was it?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Feb 2024
    There was one in the Phoenix Framework (Elixir) about issuing certificates with an invalid end date: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/5737

    Interestingly, Azure had this bug some years ago too leading to an outage. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/summary-of-windows-az...

  • Aplicando MVVM en Phoenix LiveView
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2024
    Official website: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Things I like about Gleam's Syntax
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Oct 2023
    Since you mention Rails, have you seen https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
    14 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023
    Thus, we set out to build a desktop application using a LiveView from the Phoenix Framework in Elixir. For the uninitiated, a LiveView is a process that receives events, updates its state, and renders updates to a page as diffs. The LiveView programming model is declarative: instead of saying “once event X happens, change Y on the page”, events in LiveView are regular messages which may cause changes to its state.
  • Has anybody compared Phoenix Framwork vs. Blazor?
    1 project | /r/Blazor | 11 Oct 2023
    It seems though like Phoenix is similar like Blazor Server (using web socket), but Phoenix is: SEO friendly (first render is plain html) Light weight, scales well and concurrency is first class Easy to develop (runs a local server so you see live updates) Compiled With auth out of the box https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
    Sorry to hear this. Phoenix v1.7 changed how it structures files in disk and that broke quite some of the getting started material. However, the guides are always kept up to date, so you can give it a try: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html

    You can also see the resources on this page listed by year: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/guides... - the recent launched ones are most likely up to date.

  • Emoji Generator with AI
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023
    Yes! I love Elixir :) [Phoenix LiveView](https://www.phoenixframework.org/) is really amazing. I feel so fast working in it. I got hooked after watching Chris McCord's ['Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI&embeds_referring...), and things have improved a lot since then.
  • Ask HN: What's the best modern back end?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2023
    I still work on a lot of Java projects. As of JDK 17 Java has most of "ML the good parts" and has the same scalable, reliable and high-performance threading Java is famous for. JAX-RS provides a Sinatra style framework that makes it easy to write JSON API back ends. JDK 21 is just about to come out as a long term supported version and it will be even better.

    I do my side projects in Python with aiohttp and think it is a lot of fun even though people tell me it is suicide (I guess if you block the thread you are in trouble)

    I think "Next.js" really wants a node.js backend which has the big advantage that you can share code with the front end and back end. It's basically single-threaded but I know people who are happy with it.

    The system I'd most like to try is

    https://www.phoenixframework.org/

    which is just great if you want to do stuff with websockets that is more interactive than what most people are doing.

  • Ask HN: Leetcode for Back End and Server Development
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023

htmx

Posts with mentions or reviews of htmx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-31.
  • Reusable Input Datalist
    1 project | dev.to | 6 Apr 2024
    When I work with HTMX I need isolated component that can be reusable a form. So I create a PHP Function that generate the Input Datalist.
  • HTMZ inspired form subission
    2 projects | dev.to | 31 Mar 2024
    I was inspired by htmz (which was in turn inspired by htmx) and how the author got pretty close to a basic htmx-like experience just using an iframe. I wanted to push it a little further so whipped this demo together. My submission demonstrates progressive enhancement for the form - with js enabled the request targets an iframe that is inserted into the dom, meaning the page doesn't actually navigate (similar to event.preventDefault()). The iframe receives the html response from the request and on load triggers a function to swap out it's contents into the main page.
  • Example Java Application with Embedded Jetty and a htmx Website
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Mar 2024
    As described on htmx.org: "htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext"
  • Show HN: ZakuChess, an open source web game built with Django, Htmx and Tailwind
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024
    Apart from the source code itself, the repo's README also gives a bit more details about the various packages I used.

    1. htmx: https://htmx.org/

  • Show HN: Alpine Ajax – If Htmx and Alpine.js Had a Baby
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
    Also, there’s some response header juggling you have to do when submitting forms that have a validation step before redirecting: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/issues/369

    I’ve tried to iron out any footguns or server requirements I’ve bumped into while using HTMX & Hotwire in my projects.

  • 🤓 My top 3 Go packages that I wish I'd known about earlier
    6 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2024
    ✨ In recent months, I have been developing web projects using GOTTHA stack: Go + Templ + Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js. As soon as I'm ready to talk about all the subtleties and pitfalls, I'll post it on my social networks.
  • FLaNK Stack 26 February 2024
    50 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2024
  • Go + Hypermedia - A Learning Journey (Part 1)
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2024
    I've been digging into HTMX lately (using Python web frameworks) and find the concepts and approach to be interesting and promising. The idea of hypermedia driven systems over the current practice of JavaScript based frameworks (I never really got into React, played with Vue, and enjoy Svelte/SvelteKit) and the ability to chose your language/framework for the backend while primarily leveraging HTML/CSS on the frontend just seems refreshing.
  • Htmx become 0 clause BSD-licensed
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
    Apparently it changed from 2-clause BSD: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/commit/e16f1865a494b6...

    (The zero clause license drops the requirements for preserving the copyright notice when distributing)

  • Web frameworks we are most excited for in 2024
    5 projects | dev.to | 13 Feb 2024
    It would be a sin not to start with something that prides itself on being the front-end library of peace. HTMX skyrocketed in popularity in 2023, gaining most of its GitHub stars during the past year. HTMX is not your average JS framework. If you work in HTMX, you will spend most of your time in the world of hypermedia, looking at web development from a completely different pair of eyes as compared to our usual JS-heavy outlook on modern web development. HTMX leverages the power of the concept of HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), enabling developers to access browser features directly from HTML, instead of using Javascript.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Phoenix and htmx you can also consider the following projects:

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

sugar - Modular web framework for Elixir

Vue.js - This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core

hotwire-rails - Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

astro - The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!

kitto - Kitto is a framework for interactive dashboards written in Elixir

react-snap - 👻 Zero-configuration framework-agnostic static prerendering for SPAs

trot - An Elixir web micro-framework.

unpoly - Progressive enhancement for HTML

RIG - Create low-latency, interactive user experiences for stateless microservices.

django-unicorn - The magical reactive component framework for Django ✨