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From htmx.org:

> htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML

That sounds a lot like AngularJS (i.e. v1). It got its name from HTML tags being angular, implying that things previously done in JavaScript could now be done with something resembling HTML. We all know how that worked out.



htmx is an extension of HTML as a hypermedia

completely different model and in line with the original model of the original REST-ful web architecture in a way that angular was not:

https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/


It's not really like that at all. I'd look a little deeper than that.




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