Modern Frontend Complexity: essential or accidental?
2026-04-18
Once upon a time, at the dawn of the web, browsers and websites were simple ... Then slowly, step by step, more and more interactivity was added.
Multi vs Single Page Apps: user experience, performance, complexity and more
2025-03-08
To establish what these differences are, we will go through two implementations of Projects App - one as HTMX MPA and the other as React SPA. This makes our comparison more concrete and objective, since the same functionalities were implemented twice, only approach - MPA vs SPA - is what makes these cases different.
React and HTMX: different abstractions, different tradeoffs
2025-01-28
React and HTMX represent two completely different approaches to building web applications. React approach is JSON centric. It is driven by JSON, a data format that is totally different from what is needed to render web pages or their fragments - HTML ... HTMX approach is HTML centric. It is driven by HTML - data is received in the exactly same way it is required for rendering, there is no need for any transformations.
HTMX with Shoelace Web Components: using framework-agnostic components in an example app
2024-10-12
As we already know, HTMX pairs really nicely with Web Components. Shoelace is a popular and mature collection of configurable Web Components, which by definition are framework agnostic. Since writing our own components library is a ton of work, we should rather prefer using something ready and battle tested. Let's then see how this library plays with HTMX by building a real application!
HTMX: a setup ready for Production
2024-05-04
HTMX is a promising technology that simplifies many things when building web applications/systems ... That is great when it comes to local development and simple experiments, but what about Production?
HTMX and Web Components: a Perfect Match
2023-12-21
Web Components are a set of browser APIs that allow us to create custom HTML elements. They are one of the major things that SPA (Single Page Application) frameworks have been giving us for a long time ... HTMX is highly interesting, useful and a promising technology. It simplifies many things and allows us to build SPA or SPA-like applications without complex tooling, dependencies, frameworks and mostly without writing application-specific JavaScript code.
HTMX: simpler web-based app/system
2023-09-22
Nowadays, when we develop web-based app/system it is most likely built as SPA, which is a single page application. We should ask, why have we done that? Why have we switched from multi page applications, where the browser supported all of these functions out of the box, functions that we now need to recreate by writing custom JavaScript code?