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by midrus 2034 days ago
I find unpoly so much better and complete than this.

Unpoly just has bad marketing.

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That's fine, unpoly is a reasonable approach to building front end code, but it's a very different model.

htmx is focused on improving html qua html. It doesn't have any notion of the server side beyond that which html has: URLs. As such it is attempting to say within the original model of the web: a hypertext architecture with REST/HATEOAS as the bedrock.

It isn't a complete framework in the flavor of unpoly, and so it won't have the expressive power of unpoly in many cases. That's an intentional tradeoff based on the core motivating concept of the library.

Which is fine: different strokes for different folks.