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wenc on May 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Htmx – high power tools for HTML

I think that even if a server returns HTML, on the client-side we'd typically like to retain the flexibility to style/restyle/rearrange elements it to fit the current layout. The same response could be used in multiple places with different styles.

What other client-side UI frameworks do you recommend? I'm liking what I'm seeing with HTMX due to its small size and simplicity.

recursivedoubts on May 28, 2020 [–]

with htmx you can send out of band content down that will be swapped in by id:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-swap-oob/

you can also select content by a selector:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-select/

and there is infrastructure for general response transformations via the extensions mechanism:

https://htmx.org/extensions/client-side-templates/

See the source code here:

https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@0.0.4/dist/ext/client-side-templa...

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