It was a kiosk app running on mobile tablets. It could have been a small native app, but the team, who were all pure Pythonists, tried that and decided it was too hard. So someone said React would be easy; after all it's just gluing together components, right?
The React app was built in ~3 months but the deadlines had created technical debt. When the team had problems modelling all the state, and the Redux store became an incomprehensible mess, someone said, "The problem is React. HTMX will finally make things simple".
They spent ~9 months on their HTMX rewrite and got even less far than the React version. It had numerous bugs; the UX had various regressions; it couldn't properly interact with some custom hardware; the state was now in the DB and apparently was not looking much nicer than it was in Redux, and eventually management pulled the plug.
I didn't work on it directly so I don't know how much HTMX itself stymied the project. From my interactions with the team, I think the real problem was the attitude of the developers. They decided they "hated React" when in truth they were bad at thinking about UI, particularly UI state, and unwilling to learn.
And HTMX gave succour to the fantasy they could continue not to. In fact that's how the initiative was sold to management, a way to turn non-UI devs into UI programmers.
It was a kiosk app running on mobile tablets. It could have been a small native app, but the team, who were all pure Pythonists, tried that and decided it was too hard. So someone said React would be easy; after all it's just gluing together components, right?
The React app was built in ~3 months but the deadlines had created technical debt. When the team had problems modelling all the state, and the Redux store became an incomprehensible mess, someone said, "The problem is React. HTMX will finally make things simple".
They spent ~9 months on their HTMX rewrite and got even less far than the React version. It had numerous bugs; the UX had various regressions; it couldn't properly interact with some custom hardware; the state was now in the DB and apparently was not looking much nicer than it was in Redux, and eventually management pulled the plug.
I didn't work on it directly so I don't know how much HTMX itself stymied the project. From my interactions with the team, I think the real problem was the attitude of the developers. They decided they "hated React" when in truth they were bad at thinking about UI, particularly UI state, and unwilling to learn.
And HTMX gave succour to the fantasy they could continue not to. In fact that's how the initiative was sold to management, a way to turn non-UI devs into UI programmers.