In this essay, Carson Gross and Alex Petros discuss htmx's future direction and philosophy. They explain how the project aims to emulate jQuery's success through API stability, minimal feature additions, and quarterly releases while continuing to promote hypermedia-driven development and support the broader web development ecosystem.

Learn HTMX with examples, and use the playground to write code in a backend-like environment, running entirely inside the browser. You can define endpoints within server.js and render your own templates. It will run a mock server that intercepts outgoing requests from HTMX.

htmx and Unpoly are JavaScript libraries that add interactivity to multi-page applications (MPA). Here’s why Unpoly might be better choice.

With the normal flow of frontend frameworks moving from hipster to mainstream in the coming few months, during a test, you bump into this strange application that receives HTML with `hx-` attributes…

In this guide, Carson Gross provides ten practical tips to help developers transition from Single Page Applications (SPAs) to Server-Side Rendering and Hypermedia-Driven Applications, focusing on essential mindset shifts and architectural advantages.

In this essay, Carson Gross explores his preference for separating JSON and hypermedia APIs instead of using content negotiation, a feature in HTTP that allows clients to request different formats (e.g., HTML, JSON). He discusses the limitations of content negotiation in APIs, especially when mixing stable, versioned JSON data APIs with dynamic, UI-driven hypermedia APIs. Carson argues that by splitting these concerns into distinct APIs, developers can better maintain stability for data APIs while allowing flexibility for hypermedia APIs to evolve with user interface needs. He also highlights the challenges content negotiation introduces to API design and scalability.

The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web. A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview. Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks.

Carson Gross explores the Locality of Behaviour (LoB) principle, which emphasizes making the behavior of code units obvious on inspection to enhance maintainability. He discusses the tradeoffs between LoB and other software design principles like DRY and SoC, offering insights on balancing clarity, abstraction, and maintainability in modern development.