Comment by toddmorey | Hacker News Reader

Comment by toddmorey | Hacker News Reader

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Congrats on the GitHub program! Very cool.

I just had a fresh read of the docs and htmx is refreshingly, gloriously simple--such a breath of fresh air. So natural, self-documenting, and well thought out. It _does_ feel like a natural extension of html.

To me, the only "missing" piece of htmx is a component model, but for anyone looking for that, htmx would pair amazingly well with Astro[1] which allows you to define and use html components without the runtime overhead of say Vue or React.

[1] http://astro.build

Also: I think every project / saas service should be required to have a footer haiku:

   javascript fatigue:
   longing for a hypertext
   already in hand

Not sure what you mean by html components. That's kind of missing the point of HTMX, no? Most backend frameworks like Django or templating engines like Jinja2 have the concept of blocks or fragments so its easy to render out component pieces to send back to the frontend. If you combine that with the OOB options in HTMX and/or the Hyperscript or Alpine libraries, then I'm not sure what you would gain by using Astro.

I mean, I just don’t think you should have to have Django for a simple website. Astro is an alternative to those backend frameworks. It’s a backend framework itself in many ways.

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