Htmx and the Rule of Least Power

• shoelace-css

  73 12,030 9.5 TypeScript

  A collection of professionally designed, every day UI components built on Web standards. SHOELACE IS BECOMING WEB AWESOME. WE ARE LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! 👇👇👇

  

HTMX gets all the hype right now, but there are other tools in the same vain, my favorite being Unpoly (https://unpoly.com). Together with Shoelace (https://shoelace.style) you get nice GUIs real fast, without the burden of complicated dependency management and build steps. Also, you don't have to write a lot of JS, just what is needed for small enhancements, as it was meant to be. Some might say the main drawback is the tight coupling to your backend. In my case, this is also the main benefit as it integrates perfectly with the backend framework (Django).

• intercooler-js

  12 4,727 0.0 HTML

  Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags

  

An early version of Htmx was in fact based on jQuery (https://intercoolerjs.org).

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• spectre

  1 2 5.1 SCSS

  Spectre.css - A Lightweight, Responsive and Modern Pure CSS Framework (by niutech)

> You need to do click to edit, lazy loading, infinite scroll, a live search, or anything else that you’d normally be reaching for JavaScript to accomplish, you can now add HTMX to the stack, write a few more attributes on your HTML, get what you need done, and never have to use JavaScript.

And what is HTMX? A 44KB-minified JavaScript library! So this statement is false. If you really want to be lightweight, use pure CSS frameworks like Spectre (https://github.com/niutech/spectre) and pure HTML out-of-order streaming (https://github.com/niutech/phooos). If you really want a sparkle of JS, use 166b (bytes, not kilobytes!) HTMZ (https://leanrada.com/htmz/).

• phooos

  4 15 4.3 HTML

  Pure HTML Out-Of-Order Streaming (PHOOOS) without JavaScript

> You need to do click to edit, lazy loading, infinite scroll, a live search, or anything else that you’d normally be reaching for JavaScript to accomplish, you can now add HTMX to the stack, write a few more attributes on your HTML, get what you need done, and never have to use JavaScript.

And what is HTMX? A 44KB-minified JavaScript library! So this statement is false. If you really want to be lightweight, use pure CSS frameworks like Spectre (https://github.com/niutech/spectre) and pure HTML out-of-order streaming (https://github.com/niutech/phooos). If you really want a sparkle of JS, use 166b (bytes, not kilobytes!) HTMZ (https://leanrada.com/htmz/).

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