Htmx 1.0.0 Release

Congratulations on the release, i have been following htmx for a while and whilst have yet to use it, conceptually i think the ideas are solid.<p>I think the trend towards SPAs and everything is Javascript&#x2F;JSX has created a situation where people build SPAs then add SSR as an afterthought.<p>This is anathema to the ideas of document driven web pages and i think htmx could be a good middle ground. Of course for some applications SPAs are the correct choice but I see many people reaching for them as the default rather than creating pages and enhancing when necessary.<p>I am working on some tooling in this space and hope to see how htmx could fit into progressively enhanced websites.

&gt; It&#x27;s worth mentioning that, if you prefer, you can use the `data-` prefix when using htmx<p>I don&#x27;t know why people who make frameworks either prefer invalid HTML, or if they do allow people to write valid HTML they seem to show the invalid code in the docs<p>You are not allowed to invent any old attributes you want and add them to any element and have it be valid HTML, but you can invent any attribute you want so long as it begins with `data-`.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html.spec.whatwg.org&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;dom.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-*-attributes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;html.spec.whatwg.org&#x2F;multipage&#x2F;dom.html#embedding-cu...</a>

I&#x27;m the creator of htmx, glad to see this make HN.<p>Happy to answer questions.

I recently tried to use htmx because i like the idea. I made a table where you could click lines to expand them. Now, clicking a line would request the subcontent and insert it, easy-peezy. But now i want you to be able to click the line again to close. Hmm, in htmx this means that i’ll have to return a new parent line from the server as well... guess ill make a special template for that. Repeat this a few times and my backend templates were getting so many special cases that i just switched back to jQuery.<p>Perhaps i just need to learn more “htmx-like” code patterns, but they didn’t come that naturally to me.

This looks amazing! I never adopted any of the frameworks (vue, react, angular, ...) because I think they should only be used for web apps, but not for classic websites. JS for everything frontend-related in my opinion just has too many downsides for an open web (possibly bad SEO for crawlers that don&#x27;t support javascript, reliance on the users device for rendering)<p>Htmx might be the perfect tool to stay with classic server-side rendering and still have the &quot;pop&quot; of SPAs.

Apologies if I missed it, but how would authentication work? I&#x27;m trying to figure out where ok the scale from Spring Security to JWT and React it falls on.

Has anybody built a site they’d like to share built with htmx? (If so, do share :)

I find unpoly so much better and complete than this.<p>Unpoly just has bad marketing.