Right - you can NOT tell me that a sufficiently complex application using HTMX is easier to reason about than React. I've had to deal with a complex HTMX codebase and it is a nightmare.
Right - you can NOT tell me that a sufficiently simple application using React is easier to reason about than HTMX. I've had to deal with a simple React codebase and it is a nightmare.
Yeah… one of them addresses a market populated by hundreds of thousands of developers with extensive professional experience in the framework, and the other addresses a niche of Python developers who refused to learn JavaScript until somebody hid it from them and called it hypermedia.
100’s of thousands used to use php too :) most developers (roughly 97.56% are terrible/incompetent so going with the herd should tell you you are on the wrong train :)
Thousands of developers still use PHP… and even more users… Wordpress (43% of web), Facebook (billions of users), Wikipedia (billions of users)…. all PHP.
htmx is a a toy, mildly amusing to play with, built on an insecure foundation that bypasses basic browser security controls and hands a blob of JavaScript to a bunch of backend developers who can’t be bothered to learn it because they think they know better…
No serious project uses htmx and none ever will, because it becomes an unmaintainable mess by the third developer and second year of development.
“No serious project uses [insert any framework/language/…] and none ever will, because it becomes an unmaintainable mess by the third developer and second year of development” if team is incompetent
