This feels like an uninformed, generalized opinion from someone with zero experience on the topic. Have you even used HTMX or a similar approach?

Besides the memes, it is absolutely not hype-driven, but hypermedia driven. It asks the question: could HTML be even more powerful than it already is?

The creators of HTMX even want to standardize core ideas of HTMX into the official HTML specification: https://triptychproject.org/ Please read this and reply when you still think it's hype.

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asdfsa32 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I have been writing frontends since early 2000. So I have seen it all, from activex being shinny to jquery, mootools, backbonejs, angular 1.0, php, Java Spring, Go.

Hypermedia is what to web apps what XML is to programming languages. We have tried HTMX as a concept many times over, there is nothing new here, and like everything declarative, sooner or later it will fall short and you're going to reach for escape hatches and what not.

And the features specified in that project is nice to have, in the same way that it is nice that we have Date Pickers or other advanced input features, but it is never going to replace React-like frameworks.

Again, the reason we have finally stabilised on JSX is because you can't really "Declare" away HTML or sophisticated data and event management, Google really really tried that with Angular 1.0, and we know it doesn't scale.

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monooso 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Hypermedia is what to web apps what XML is to programming languages.

I have no idea what this means. The World Wide Web itself is quite literally hypermedia.

The fact that a lot of front-end frameworks appear hell bent on ignoring this fact doesn't make it any less true.

> Again, the reason we have finally stabilised on JSX is because you can't really "Declare" away HTML or sophisticated data and event management...

You may have stabilised on JSX, "we" have not. React is one way of building web applications. It's appropriate for a certain subset of highly interactive SPAs, and completely inappropriate for many other things.

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asdfsa32 an hour ago | parent [-]

> You may have stabilised on JSX, "we" have not.

Just about any reputable sources puts the combined market share of React, Vue, Angular 2+, and Solid well above 80%.

So I am not sure what "we" you are talking about.

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		This is ignoring the React Native and Flutter prominence on App Stores as well.