HTMX is awesome and here's why

09/07/23 • 8 min

What if you could supercharge your HTML with AJAX requests, CSS transitions, and web socket capabilities directly from HTML attributes? That's what HTMX can do for you. We're discussing its benefits and drawbacks in this episode.
Highlights
00:00 Introduction to HTMX
01:16 Triggers and Functionality
02:06 Benefits and Use Cases
03:26 Making static WordPress interactive
04:19 Modern JavaScript Frameworks vs HTMX
05:25 Areas for Improvement
08:15 Final Thoughts
Links
- HTMX Official Website: https://htmx.org/
- Alpine.js: https://alpinejs.dev/
- Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com/
- Mutation Observer: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver

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Siegfried, deploy! - HTMX is awesome and here's why

Transcript

Steffen00:00:00.221

Hey Dominik , what do you know about HTMX ?

Dominik00:00:07.480

Yeah , htmx is a library that has gained some traction lately again . That allows you to do like AJAX stuff , css transitions , web sockets , server-side events directly in your HTML using attributes like basically these kind of directives , and if you go to their website you will have some basic