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by kubota 1134 days ago
I don't know. The tabs example on the htmx page is perceptibly slow to me. Making a rest call every time I switch a tab, each time sending 90% of the same html skeleton data over the wire feels like a sin to me. Returning html from my api also feels like a sin.
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CRConrad 1129 days ago
> Returning html from my api also feels like a sin.

Sorry, but that's just... Silly. HTML is what the Web is all about.

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kubota 1127 days ago
Most of my apis are consumed my multiple clients, many without user interfaces (other backend systems), some with mobile user interfaces, some with web interfaces. I should make my backend clients parse HTML? Or my mobile clients parse HTML? I don't see any benefit to coupling data to a visual markup language, unless you are only serving web ui clients, and have no plans for that to ever change. Or I should stand up additional services (and pay for their operation and maintenance) just to server side render my data wrapped in html? That seems sillier to me, but to each their own.
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