HTMX essays

• https://htmx.org/essays/

• 2024
  • 2024-01
    • 2024-01-10
      • 2024-01-10 Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework ? by Alexander Petros
        • Introduction
        • #The difference between a library and a framework
        • #htmx is (usually) a framework
        • #htmx is for writing HTML
• 2023
  • 2023-11
    • 2023-11-18
      • 2023-11-18 Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • #What Is Content Negotiation ?
        • #Using Content Negotiation In APIs
        • #So What’s The Problem ?
        • #So What’s The Alternative ?
  • 2023-09
    • 2023-09-21
      • 2023-09-21 The #ViewSource Affordance by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • #Open Culture & The Web
        • #Right-Click-View-Source As Culture
        • #Digital Enclosure vs. Technical Enclosure
        • #Technical Enclosure
        • #Google in 2000
        • #Google in 2023
        • #Right-Click-View-Source Extremism
        • #Prioritizing #ViewSource
  • 2023-08
    • 2023-08-19
      • 2023-08-19 Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step ? by Alexander Petros
        • Introduction
        • #Write Once, Run Forever
        • #Developer Experience
        • #Enforced Clarity
        • #Costs
        • #No static types
        • #No ES6
        • #No modules in core
        • #Final Thoughts
  • 2023-06
    • 2023-06-14
      • 2023-06-14 10 Tips For Building SSR (Server-Side Rendering)/HDA (Hypermedia-Driven Application) applications
        • Introduction
        • Tip 1: Maximize Your Server-Side Strengths
        • Tip 2: Factor Your Application On The Server
        • Tip 3: Specialize Your API End Points
        • Tip 4: Aggressively Refactor Your API End Points
        • Tip 5: Take Advantage of Direct Access To The Data
        • Tip 6: Avoid Modals
        • Tip 7: Accept “Good Enough” UX
        • Tip 8: When Necessary, Create “Islands of Interactivity”
        • Tip 9: Don’t Be Afraid To Script!
        • Tip 10: Be Pragmatic
        • Conclusion
  • 2023-05
    • 2023-05-23
      • 2023-05-23 HOWL (Hypermedia On Whatever you’d Like) by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • Feeling The JavaScript Pressure
        • Hypermedia: Our Only Hope
        • An Open Web for Everyone
        • But, Is it An Anti-JavaScript Resistance ?
        • Turning The Ship Around
  • 2023-01
    • 2023-01-28
      • 2023-01-28 Hypermedia clients by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • #Hypermedia Clients & Presentation Information
        • #Pushing Our JSON API Further
        • #“Inefficient” Representations
        • #Building Hypermedia Clients
        • #Hyperview
• 2022
  • 2022-11
    • 2022-11-22
      • 2022-11-17 Hypermedia-Friendly Scripting by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • Scripting & The Web
        • #The Prime Directive
        • #State
        • #Events
        • #Islands
        • #Inline Scripts
        • #Pragmatism
  • 2022-10
    • 2022-10-23
      • 2022-10-23 When Should You Use Hypermedia ? by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • #Transitional Applications & Hypermedia
        • #Hypermedia: A Good Fit If…
        • #Hypermedia: Not A Good Fit If…
        • #Conclusion
    • 2022-10-15
      • 2022-10-15 Moving From React to htmx by David Guillot
        • Introduction
        • Video
        • Executive Summary
        • Analysis
        • Slides
  • 2022-09
    • 2022-09-29
      • 2022-09-29 A Real World React -> htmx Port (From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it’s awesome!)
        • Introduction
        • Executive Summary
        • Slides
  • 2022-08
    • 2022-08-22
      • 2022-08-22 FrOW What is HTML Fragments over the Wire ?
        • What is HTML Fragments over the Wire ?
        • The old way: Full page
        • Current hype: SPA (JSON over the wire)
        • static site generators
        • FrOW: HTML Fragments over the Wire
        • Do it yourself
        • Unpoly
        • Hotwire
        • Conclusion
        • FrOW Related
  • 2022-07
    • 2022-07-18
      • 2022-07-18 How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST ? by Carson Gross
        • Announces
        • How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST ?
        • Where Did REST Come From ?
        • The Crux of REST: The Uniform Interface & HATEOAS
        • The HTML response is entirely self-describing
        • Inventor: RESTful APIs Must Be Hypermedia Driven
        • Industry: Lol, No, RESTful APIs Are JSON
        • How REST came to mean pseudoREST
        • Maybe REST can work for Web Services ?
        • Formalizing REST APIs
        • “REST” Wins, Kinda…
        • The REST Wars
        • The State of REST Today
        • OK, What Can We Do About This Situation ?
  • 2022-05
    • 2022-05-01
      • 2022-05-01 Two Approaches To Decoupling by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • #Coupling
        • #JSON Data APIs - Application Level Decoupling
        • #Decoupling Via A JSON API In Practice
        • #A Solution: GraphQL
        • #Another Solution: Splitting Your Application & General Data APIs
        • #Hypermedia - Network Architecture Decoupling
        • #REST & The Uniform Interface
        • #Decoupling Via Hypermedia In Practice
        • #But That’s A Terrible (Data) API !
        • #Conclusion
  • 2022-02
    • 2022-02-06
      • 2022-02-06 Hypermedia-Driven Applications
        • Genesis
        • The Hypermedia-Driven Application Architecture
        • An Example HDA (Hypermedia Driven Application) fragment
        • Scripting In An HDA
        • HDA-style libraries (htmx, unpoly, hotwire, hyperview)
        • Conclusion
• 2021
  • 2021-10
    • 2021-10-16
      • 2021-10-16 HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) by Carson Gross
        • Announce
        • Last version
        • HATEOAS
        • Example
        • Origins
        • HATEOAS and JSON
        • Comments
  • 2021-09
    • 2021-09-16
      • 2021-09-16 Splitting Your Data & Application APIs: Going Further by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • #The Problem
        • #Right about What’s Wrong
        • #Wrong about What’s Right
        • #In Conclusion
  • 2021-07
    • 2021-07-17
      • 2021-07-17 Hypermedia APIs vs. Data APIs by Carson Gross
        • Introduction
        • #APIs Today
        • #Designing a Hypermedia API
        • #API Churn
        • #Conclusion
• 2020
  • 2020-05
    • 2020-05-29
      • 2020-05-29 Locality of Behaviour (LoB)
        • Introduction
        • Discussion
        • Surfacing Behaviour vs. Inlining Implementation
        • Conflict With Other Development Principles
        • Conclusion
        • Other Links : The Rule of Least Power
  • 2020-01
    • 2020-01-14
      • 2020-01-14 Taking HTML Seriously by Carson Gross
        • HTML, The Water We Swim In
        • State of The Art Today: JSON
        • The Fatal Flaw of HTML
        • Conclusion
        • Further Reading
• 2016
  • 2016-05
    • 2016-05-08
      • 2016-05-08 HATEOAS is for Humans by Carson Gross
        • ##TLDR##
        • HATEOAS - Wat ?
        • HTML - HATEOAS for Humans
        • Why The Gnashing of Teeth ?
        • Agency As A Service (AAAS)
        • OK, So How Should We Speak To The Machines ?