What does HackerNews think of htmx?

> I’d love more tips for no-build-system javascript

1. MDN has a comprehensive guide on JavaScript modules [0]

2. A build system free way to build interactive websites could be to combine libraries like htmx[1] and or lit[2] or just the sub package lit-html[3]. Or just go with native web components and a bit of AJAX.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

[1] https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx

[2] https://github.com/lit/lit

[3] https://github.com/lit/lit/tree/main/packages/lit-html

as usual, htmx:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx

working on an extension to do head tag merging:

https://dev.htmx.org/extensions/head-support/

As a non web developer, writing less JS appeals to me, and I've found HTMX[1] to be simple to use. I'll add that the HTMX website/docs are much more approachable than this site.

[1]: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx

This project seems more similar to the ones below than to Vue.js:

https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine (acknowledged in their readme)

https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus

https://github.com/intercoolerjs/intercooler-js

https://github.com/mavoweb/mavo

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx

https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly

(ordered by GitHub stars)