spring-native VS htmx

It was probably not a very good idea to write Lambda using Java programming language and Spring Boot Framework. Despite the well-spread usage and knowledge of this framework, the fact that Spring (Boot) heavily uses reflection and takes time to start the embedded Web Application Server led to very big cold starts which we'll explore in the next section. But now with SnapStart on AWS and GraalVM Native Image Support we have two more options how to optimize those cold starts. So let's explore how to write Lambda function using the Spring Boot. The code of this sample application (the same as for the first 3 parts but rewritten to use Spring Boot) can be found here. It provides AWS API Gateway and 2 Lambda functions: "CreateProduct" and "GetProductById". The products are stored in the Amazon DynamoDB. We'll use AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) for the infrastructure as a code.

During this experience, I was surprised to find that Spring Native doesn't support caching yet. I believe this support will be added by the community soon. In the meantime, if you're looking to start/stop your infra as fast as possible, you probably don't care about caching. Caching is made for long-lived, JVM-strong, JVM-loving apps.

fuente: https://spring.io/blog/2021/03/11/announcing-spring-native-beta

As I just found out thanks to a comment from another Redditor, spring-aot will be getting some functional configuration compile time generation support in Spring Native's next release

Not sure how far they are currently, but have you heard of Spring Native? https://spring.io/blog/2021/03/11/announcing-spring-native-beta

I have to say Spring. Because it is so mature and well-documented. Sure, it is bloated sometimes and not very well-suited for small JAR packages. And I have tried other frameworks as well, but I find that I keep returning to Spring. Especially since Spring keeps adding features that caused competing framework to have an edge over Spring, like native images with Spring Native for example.

Our next steps are : provide great Kotlin/JVM/Native (Native with Kotlin JVM via GraalVM native images) support via https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-native/, empowering multiplatform development (with Kotlin/JS frontend for example), translating Spring Boot documentation to Kotlin (via a contribution from Kotlin team), make sure that some APIs like WebTestClient currently broken with Kotlin due to some type inference bugs with recursive generic types become usable.

I doubt micronaut has better runtime performance. You're probably talking about startup time and this point is moot with either https://github.com/dsyer/spring-boot-auto-reflect Or https://spring.io/blog/2021/03/11/announcing-spring-native-beta

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.

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.

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"

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/

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.

✨ 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.

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.

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)

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.