This matches my experience. State management is the key thing - you end up needing to put way more on the backend then you'd otherwise like to. Quick example: something like a multi-step "wizard" is far more difficult to express in HTMX than with any SPA-ish pattern.

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adamzwasserman 4 days ago | parent [-]

Check out DecisionMe.com. 100 percent wizard pattern, htmx based nav and validation.

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g947o 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Eh.. this does not contradict the previous point? Unless we can see the backend code and do some comparison with a reference implementation, it does not disprove "far more difficult to express". "can be done with htmx" != "easy/easier to do with htmx"

	▲	adamzwasserman 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		True, but it is not my code to that with. so... If I ever open source one of my backends I will try and remember to flag it in a reply here.