htmx: clojure apps and services using HTMX

• What is HTMX
• Advantages
• Constraints

What is is

htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext

htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react

Guides

• simple server-side app with HTMX
• data science dashboard, e.g. visualisations
• complex UI ???

Reference

• https://htmx.org/
• https://hypermedia.systems/ book (free version online)
• https://htmx.org/discord has a clojure-htmx channel
• https://github.com/whamtet/simpleui & https://simpleui.io/
• https://github.com/practicalli-johnny/htmx-examples-clojure-fork
• Clojureverse - whose using htmx and clojure
• https://github.com/BerkeleyTrue/conduit-clj-htmx
• https://biffweb.com/docs/reference/htmx/
• YouTube: HTMX with Clojure backend - playlist

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