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A modest critique of Htmx

work, we really like the basic simple idea of Htmx. Based on using Htmx in a non-trivial user interface, across a team, we’ve found that the following cases are actually not simple and are quite complicated.

Event triggers often help to make things happen, but they’re a non-local effect, and suffer from similar issues as property inheritance. A bit of DSL work in the server-side language can help with this, but it feels like old-school JavaScript callback-based programming to some extent; where you “subscribe” to an event happening and do something. Our current thinking is that being able to use your server side language is a huge obvious and uncontroversial win, no one on the team would want to go back to writing all this business logic in TypeScript:

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