Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024)

3 kugurerdem 3 7/19/2025, 2:23:53 PM hamy.xyz ↗

Comments (3)

chistev · 3h ago
If it is too much of a pain with vanilla js, just use Svelte
Finnucane · 4h ago
“ This feels better to the user because changes feel faster”

This is debatable. Plenty of js heavy websites feel slow and clunky.

MountainMan1312 · 3h ago
I'm toying around with HTMX for my website. It's going to be sort of a wiki but a little different; the public exports from my internal knowledgebase with some extra crap mixed in.

I have lots of notes of varying types and formats. Org-mode files are all pretty standard, but there's like 3 different Markdowns and an untold number of randomly-formatted .TXT files. I want to generate their webpages on-the-fly and not have to worry about exporting it.

One of the "crap mixed in" things I want is to integrate parts of a gitweb-like interface into the notes. I reference repos and commits regularly in my notes. Would be neat to mouse-over them and get a little popup with basic info about it.

I also like that the author refers to themselves as a Technomancer. Personally I'm an metamagical artificer. I love meeting fellow adventurers.