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Building a SaaS product with Htmx – Are you sure you need all the complexity?

bout once a month, some version of the following post appears on the HTMX subreddit: User: Why would you use HTMX for a project with [some complex specification]. In response, someone will likely reply: If your project is really that complex, HTMX might not be for you.

I won’t pretend that I had fully articulated these ideas when I started this process, but I had developed a broad intuition and business philosophy that favored simplicity and pragmatism in general. The combination of HTMX + Django and the paradigms built into and advocated by these tools and their creators allowed me to be my dumb self and default to the opinions of people much more expert in these areas than myself. A students-facing app with a mirrored feed that the teacher controls, where students take quizzes, participate in discussions, view transcripts, and ask question.

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