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by masfoobar 14 days ago
As much as I really like htmx -- this is a sad truth!

I tried to pitch htmx to my team last year and found an opportunity to create a simple webapp. One of the devs really struggled with htmx after years of muscle memory returning json and rendering in JS/JQuery. It was a lot of "I now have to do this.. how do I solve this problem?"

I think he would have struggled with any different approach whether we changed to angular, react, etc. htmx didn't really stand a chance.

The other dev, on the other hand, didn't even bother to try it.

All I heard from the team was Blazor this, blazor that.

Personally I think it's a shame. We are a small team and would be good to avoid javascript 95% of the time. We could just generate server side code/html which, imo, would create organised code base. Easy to test as well.

Any personal web projects I still use htmx and reached a decent flow with it. Completely simplifies web dev, imo.