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by tmpfs 2035 days ago
Congratulations on the release, i have been following htmx for a while and whilst have yet to use it, conceptually i think the ideas are solid.

I think the trend towards SPAs and everything is Javascript/JSX has created a situation where people build SPAs then add SSR as an afterthought.

This is anathema to the ideas of document driven web pages and i think htmx could be a good middle ground. Of course for some applications SPAs are the correct choice but I see many people reaching for them as the default rather than creating pages and enhancing when necessary.

I am working on some tooling in this space and hope to see how htmx could fit into progressively enhanced websites.

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It isn't perfect yet, but hx-boost is supposed to be the progressive enhancement option in htmx:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-boost/