</> htmx ~ How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
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htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react
  • @arendjr@programming.dev
    9•3 days ago

    Opinionated summary: Developers saw REST, picked the good parts and ignored the rest (no pun intended). They still called it REST, for lack of a better word, even though things like HATEOAS were overkill for most of the applications.