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by yawaramin 535 days ago
> When this responsibility is moved to the backend you now need to track the request location, state etc. and find the right fragment,

Maybe not? I'm just returning a 422 JSON response with fields and reasons and I have a tiny bit of JavaScript in the frontend that just plugs them in to the form with the built-in Constraint Validation API.

https://dev.to/yawaramin/handling-form-errors-in-htmx-3ncg

> I suspect that Java (Spring Boot) made using HTMX much less pleasant than it would have been with something else, especially when it comes to templates and routing.

I strongly agree with that and created a library to help with those aspects: https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html?tab=readme-ov-file#f...