introduction
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaceswith the simplicity and power of hypertext
htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react
motivation
- Why should only
<a>
and<form>
be able to make HTTP requests? - Why should only
click
&submit
events trigger them? - Why should only
GET
&POST
methods be available? - Why should you only be able to replace the entire screen?
By removing these arbitrary constraints, htmx completes HTML as a hypertext