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0 pointsWA2y ago0 comments

> Would be a great hack to be able to just run your server code in a worker.

This is exactly why some people build heavy offline-first SPAs in JS. HTMX tries to avoid this entirely. Conceptually (seen from the perspective of HTMX), it makes zero sense to put the server code in a worker and run a client-server architecture in the client‘s browser.

This would be an over-engineered thing that HTMX explicitly tries to avoid in the first place.

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gedy2y ago

> This would be an over-engineered thing that HTMX explicitly tries to avoid in the first place.

Yes, this is where I think a lot of folks who moan about "bloated JS frameworks", etc. really are just complaining they can't use their favorite (or only) language for web UI development.

nymanjon2y ago

I made an app doing this with an HTMX-like library with a total of 100 kB minified/zipped code. Not bloated at all. The code to make it work is about 10 kB. The rest is the code for the actual app.

naasking2y ago

I'm not sure "zero sense" is true. An app designed around REST and hypermedia imposes sensible constraints, like how you handle state, navigation, etc., and this can still yield plenty of benefits.

nymanjon2y ago

Yes, I've done this and the code is really simple to understand compared to a SPA.

https://github.com/jon49/Soccer

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsWA2y ago0 comments

> Would be a great hack to be able to just run your server code in a worker.

This would be an over-engineered thing that HTMX explicitly tries to avoid in the first place.

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gedy2y ago

> This would be an over-engineered thing that HTMX explicitly tries to avoid in the first place.

Yes, this is where I think a lot of folks who moan about "bloated JS frameworks", etc. really are just complaining they can't use their favorite (or only) language for web UI development.

nymanjon2y ago

I made an app doing this with an HTMX-like library with a total of 100 kB minified/zipped code. Not bloated at all. The code to make it work is about 10 kB. The rest is the code for the actual app.

naasking2y ago

I'm not sure "zero sense" is true. An app designed around REST and hypermedia imposes sensible constraints, like how you handle state, navigation, etc., and this can still yield plenty of benefits.

nymanjon2y ago

Yes, I've done this and the code is really simple to understand compared to a SPA.

https://github.com/jon49/Soccer

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse