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It's enough to read the context of the discussion, don't you think?
Original complaint: "it's describing a "whole other language" they call Hyperscript"
Response: hyperscript is a completely separate technology. htmx generalizes hypermedia controls, that's pretty much it, and it can be used with any scripting tool you'd like
My response:
In reality [1] htmx defines its own non-optional DSL that you have to use.
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I will add that as with any organically grown nice-to-have utility DSLs it's quite haphazard (it's hyperscript-like in one place, js-like in another place, both in some other places etc.). But that's the nature of such ad-hoc informally specified DSLs
[1] which can be easily verified by just visiting https://htmx.org
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The book starts out with a history of hypermedia, a deep dive on the components of a hypermedia system and then a Web 1.0 style application built entirely in Flask. It then incrementally improves this with htmx, because htmx extends HTML in a specific way: it generalizes hypermedia controls. It considers how to integrate scripting and JSON APIs into a hypermedia driven application. It then showcases Hyperview (https://hyperview.org) a novel hypermedia system for mobile application development.
You can't implement things like infinite scroll or active search in plain HTML because plain HTML only supports hypermedia exchanges based on two hypermedia controls, links & forms, with two events, clicks and submits, and your target options are limited to the current window, an new window, iframes and a few other obscure options. htmx generalizes this, allowing you to implement more dynamic user interfaces within the hypermedia paradigm.
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htmx is a JavaScript library which interprets a set of HTML attributes and JavaScript events. It doesn't have anything to do with static typing. However, it's fairly easy to add a statically-typed layer on top of it eg https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html
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Is HTMX a legit solution for single-page applications? Feels like you just move the complexity to the server side. For example, the server side code for a simple TODO app is a massive programming project as seen in this repository:
https://github.com/guilycst/go-htmx-todo-list/blob/main/inte...
