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by Multicomp 337 days ago
/sarcasm/

Which is so much worse than the current paradigm where we have a client side SPA deciding to do all sorts of state syncing and react hooks and tracking pixels and auto pop ups all doing their own thing all over the place!

/end sarcasm/

I think for a side project, not immediately expecting your front end's first version to not horizontally scale to the moon is ok.

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Wat would prevent a HTMX frontend from scaling horizontally? Maybe the backend, if it cannot scale horizontally. Otherwise, a million pages can be served the same way as a dozen. (A million is actually not so much, one average API box could suffice.)

Where HTMX would run into trouble is complicated frontend logic, where updates of one area may trigger changes in another, etc.