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Following up "Mother of all Htmx demos"
Almost 2 years since my talk at DjangoCon Europe about migrating from React to htmx. A lot has been said and asked, here is my follow-up.
2021: working on a SaaS product with a fairly sophisticated user experience, I am frustrated by seeing how our React front-end is bulky, and by not being able to fix it because I am a “back-end developer” Late 2021: learning about the hypermedia approach, watching Chris McCords introducing Phoenix.LiveView back in 2018, learning about Hotwire and Unpoly, I decide to clone our front-end, just to see where the limits are, using Django and htmx. esbuild takes care of transpiling the Javascript to something that works on every browser chosen by the team, and bundles the whole thing in a timely manner. Tailwind makes the HTML your styling language, while it’s supposed to be your HyperText (some text with special ability like links/forms and, thanks to htmx, the same magic of links/forms applied to anything).
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