2024-04-08 HTMX in production by Hamilton Greene

• https://hamy.xyz/labs/2024-04_htmx-in-production

Introduction

HTMX is changing how modern web apps get built.

It provides most of the capabilities of a Single-Page Application with the simplicity of a Multi-Page Application. This means you don’t really need reach for React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, etc to get a modern app - and in most cases it’s simpler not to.

But all technologies make big promises and big splashes early in their hype cycle while few survive the test of running in production.

In this post we’re going to survey the experiences of real developers running HTMX in production to see if it works well or is just hype.