Building web applications with HTMX.
Before building Thematics I’ve explored numerous ways of building web applications.
It’s been a while since I’ve done any web stuff. Back in my day everything was done in PHP. These days everything seems to be reactive. What even is all this reactive stuff?
I’ve spent some time trying different tools, Dioxus being one of them. I liked it because it’s made in Rust, and it meant I didn’t have to touch any javascript. Still the reactive complexity was too much.
Then I stumbled upon HTMX and it was like a breath of fresh air. It’s a small library that returns HTML directly from the server.
I wanted to see how far I could push it.
- OAuth2 Authentication
- CRUD
- Sending Email
- Client/Server Events
- Infinite Scrolling Images
- Page Routing
- Filtering and Searching
- Full Game: Wordle
I loved it so much I made Thematics with it.