[lolinder]

But not before Intercooler.js (the predecessor to HTMX) or Turbolinks (the predecessor to Hotwire). This is an idea that has been developing for as long as the web itself, I don't think it's important to assign inventorship of the concept as a whole to any one project. They've all been learning from each other and innovating in their own ways.

[basch]

Meteor, Ember, Derby were the "next big thing" 10 years ago.

Principles of Rich Web Applications (rauchg.com) Nov 4, 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8559519

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2612250/application-develo...

https://shiggyenterprises.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/picking-a...

https://blog.emberjs.com/inside-fastboot-the-road-to-server-...

It's not just that the idea has been developed over and over, but it is constantly hyped as a return to the golden past, and yet never gets the love that new client side spa messes end up attracting.

[inopinatus]

Pjax, 2011. We can probably keep going back further. No-one has a monopoly on this idea.

[recursivedoubts]

htmx was a mashup of $.load(), pjax and angular 1 style attributes (very different conceptual model but I saw how angular used custom attributes and thought that looked better than the JavaScript api I had cooked up)

later on I figured out that what I was doing was generalizing hypermedia controls, but that took me years to figure out.