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0 pointswrapperup2y ago0 comments

Much of your business logic can live in the backend, and it keeps your frontend really tiny. The idea is to generate HTML on the backend, instead of using a front-end framework to generate HTML on the client from an API call.

You can also do the same in Node if you want to, I currently have a TS website that is mostly templated HTML in production (without htmx). Htmx would be perfect for that site.

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CharlesW2y ago

> Much of your business logic can live in the backend, and it keeps your frontend really tiny.

Ah, so "with htmx you can use any language" is true because its users are no longer using a programming language per se for the front-end, but instead are defining logic with htmx's DSL?

rakoo2y ago

htmx extends html to generalize a behaviour that already exists, so it's as much a DSL as html itself is a DSL

CharlesW2y ago

Or Vue, yes! ("DSL" wasn't meant as a negative, I just didn't know what else one would call htmx additions.)

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CharlesW2y ago

> Much of your business logic can live in the backend, and it keeps your frontend really tiny.

Ah, so "with htmx you can use any language" is true because its users are no longer using a programming language per se for the front-end, but instead are defining logic with htmx's DSL?

rakoo2y ago

htmx extends html to generalize a behaviour that already exists, so it's as much a DSL as html itself is a DSL

CharlesW2y ago

Or Vue, yes! ("DSL" wasn't meant as a negative, I just didn't know what else one would call htmx additions.)

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