This book aims to be an introduction to HTMX, a fantastic library that lets you create interactive Web Applications.
If you’re unfamiliar with JavaScript, before reading this book I highly recommend reading my JavaScript Beginner’s Handbook.
This book was published in late 2024.
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HTMX is an absolutely brilliant frontend library specialized in working with HTTP requests, sending data to a server, updating the UI based on some action, and so on.
It's not meant to be a UI library like Alpine, which is more oriented at adding interactivity to a page. HTMX is still a frontend library, but it's more data-oriented, and its goal is to fully replace a UI library like React or Angular, and instead use the full power of HTML (enhanced by HTMX) and hypermedia.
Sending HTML over the wire.
In this handbook I'll explain the basic building blocks of HTMX and I'll show you how you can use those handy primitives to create Web Applications with ease.
I will explain the basics of htmx.
Learn more on the official website at https://htmx.org/docs and read the book Hypermedia Systems at https://hypermedia.systems/book/contents/