Scott and Wes unravel the mysteries of HTMX, exploring the essentials for getting started, its powerful capabilities, limitations, and possible stacks for building primarily server rendered applications.

Show Notes * 00:00 Welcome * 02:07 Brought to you by Sentry.io * 02:53 What exactly is HTMX? * 04:30 What you need to know before working in HTMX. + 04:35 You need a server. + 05:35 You’ll most likely need a templating engine. + 06:42 You most likely do not need as much client-side JS. + 08:33 You don’t work in JSON + 11:15 Not something you can swap out your UI with in a SPA. + 11:48 Brings back AJAX * 13:32 So, what can it do? * 15:20 And what it doesn’t do. + 18:25 It doesn’t do server-side responses. * 19:09 What about animations? * 19:20 What about CSS? * 19:57 What about Web Components? * 20:06 What about third-party client-side JS? * 20:18 What about WebSockets and SSE? * HTMX WebSockets * 20:30 What about extensions? * HTMX Extensions * 21:00 Wes’ “bomb” question. * 24:16 What Scott likes about HTMX. * 25:45 What Scott doesn’t like about HTMX. * HTMX Multi-Swap * 30:33 Hype, Meta Framework. * Hype

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