> you seem to say you are apart from js libraries/frameworks
Besides memes I don't see this at all. The htmx project doesn't shy away from what it is: javascript.
Hypermedia has stagnated for 2+ decades. Asserting that hypermedia cannot be more than what current implementations have delivered is stolid and myopic.
htmx represents a vision of: 1. What is the core idea of hypermedia? 2. What would hypermedia look like if the core idea was logically extended to be more useful than the original implementations? and 3. How can you use javascript to fill the gap between the html+http that we have, and this expanded idea of what hypermedia could be?
Obviously it has to do this as a javascript library because that's the only possible path. And it's great that existing web technologies are flexible enough to explore interesting ideas like this. But it's silly to discount a project because it's based on a particular vision of how to add life back to older technology.
Besides memes I don't see this at all. The htmx project doesn't shy away from what it is: javascript.
Hypermedia has stagnated for 2+ decades. Asserting that hypermedia cannot be more than what current implementations have delivered is stolid and myopic.
htmx represents a vision of: 1. What is the core idea of hypermedia? 2. What would hypermedia look like if the core idea was logically extended to be more useful than the original implementations? and 3. How can you use javascript to fill the gap between the html+http that we have, and this expanded idea of what hypermedia could be?
Obviously it has to do this as a javascript library because that's the only possible path. And it's great that existing web technologies are flexible enough to explore interesting ideas like this. But it's silly to discount a project because it's based on a particular vision of how to add life back to older technology.