By far the biggest downside of this approach for me is that I found out about it in 2020 instead of 2013, when htmx predecessor was created (intercooler).
The hype around reactive technologies in the mid to late 2010s looks kinda funny now considering how much unwarranted hot garbage companies have built with it.
But hindsight is 20/20. Someone may be building a beautiful language that will kill JS in the 2020s, and in 2026 we'll all be wondering why weren't using it in in early 2022.
TBH I think one of the real drivers was just being able to share an API with mobile apps, as 'mobile app for everything' dies down so will SPAs for everything under the sun
It definitely is worth looking into. By reducing complexity around the interactivity portions of an application and all of the dom manipulation, it frees frontend developers to focus more on the aesthetic portion and the user experience itself.
the core idea is to use hypermedia, rather than an RPC-style architecture, and that is, at the least, an interesting alternative approach to consider when creating front end code
Yes, this is not for a front-end developer, this is for all the other people who don’t want to be front-end developers and don’t want to spend months every year to keep up with JS churn.
Since we began using this approach, we can be full-stack developers again. One person can easily implement both parts, which is so much faster.
