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by wrapperup 1033 days ago
Much of your business logic can live in the backend, and it keeps your frontend really tiny. The idea is to generate HTML on the backend, instead of using a front-end framework to generate HTML on the client from an API call.

You can also do the same in Node if you want to, I currently have a TS website that is mostly templated HTML in production (without htmx). Htmx would be perfect for that site.
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CharlesW 1033 days ago
> Much of your business logic can live in the backend, and it keeps your frontend really tiny.

Ah, so "with htmx you can use any language" is true because its users are no longer using a programming language per se for the front-end, but instead are defining logic with htmx's DSL?

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rakoo 1033 days ago
htmx extends html to generalize a behaviour that already exists, so it's as much a DSL as html itself is a DSL
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CharlesW 1033 days ago
Or Vue, yes! ("DSL" wasn't meant as a negative, I just didn't know what else one would call htmx additions.)
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rakoo 1032 days ago
Yes but vue is far more involved than htmx though. Vue has its own way of architecturing your project. htmx is closer to a progressive enhancement of html
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