# Most Recent

1. Jan 12, 2025 Alternatives to htmx
2. Jan 10, 2025 A Real World wasm to htmx Port
3. Jan 01, 2025 The future of htmx
4. Dec 17, 2024 htmx lore
5. Dec 07, 2024 Prefer If Statements To Polymorphism...

Hypermedia and REST

• HATEOAS
• How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
• Two Approaches To Decoupling
• Hypermedia Clients
• HATEOAS Is For Humans
• Taking HTML Seriously
• The #ViewSource Affordance

Why Hypermedia? Why Multi-Page Applications?

• Hypermedia On Whatever you’d Like (HOWL)
• A Response To “Have SPAs Ruined The Web”
• When To Use Hypermedia?
• The API Churn/Security Trade-off
• Does Hypermedia Scale?

Real World htmx Experiences

• A Real World React to htmx Port
• Another Real World React to htmx Port
• A Real World wasm to htmx Port
• Next.js to htmx — A Real World Example
• You Can’t Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications… And Other Myths

On The Other Hand…

• htmx sucks
• Why Gumroad Didn’t Choose htmx
• A Modest Critique of htmx [Response]
• Alternatives

Building Hypermedia Applications

• Hypermedia-Driven Applications (HDAs)
• Web Security Basics (with htmx)
• Hypermedia Friendly Scripting
• 10 Tips For Building SSR/HDA applications
• Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation
• Template Fragments
• Web Components Work Great with htmx
• View Transitions
• Model/View/Controller
• Is Rendering JSON More Efficient Than Rendering HTML?
• Is JSON Smaller Than HTML?

Complexity Very, Very Bad

• The Grug Brained Developer
• Codin’ Dirty
• Locality of Behavior (LoB)
• Complexity Budget
• Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step
• Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
• htmx Implementation Deep Dive (Video)

Hypermedia Research

• A File Structure For The Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate (Ted Nelson, 1965)
• The Mother Of All Demos (Doug Englebart, 1968)
• The First Web Page (1991)
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (Roy Fielding, 2000)
• State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues and Applications (2006) [archive]
• Hypermedia Controls: Feral to Formal (ACM HT’24)
• Preserving REST-ful Visibility Of Rich Web Applications With Generalized Hypermedia Controls (ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, Autumn’24)

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