“htmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx”
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“htmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx”
htmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react
(htmx.org)
> AI and Tooling Support: It’s worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx, due to the lack of open-source training data.
A risk with "AI" for coding I’ve talked about is that it's trained on legacy code so it's going to be a conservative force in software dev, driving people to use outdated but popular approaches. This is the first time I've seen that happen in the wild
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@[email protected] oh my does, does this mean we will never be rid of the react scourge