HTMx: Building modern web applications without JS

In the last decade, the rise of Single Page Applications (SPA) allowed sophisticated web applications to be built with libraries such as React, Angular etc. — putting a big JS stack in front of the client. Let us take a look into HTMx and why its approach is fundamentally different from current wave of evolving frontend tools: Based on Hypermedia as an architectural concept, HTMx allows developers to leverage HTML, HTTP and REST as the primary tools for building dynamic user interfaces and enables faster development without reliance on JavaScript frameworks and dependencies. Also, it embraces progressive enhancement and graceful degradation principles.

We are happy to have the creator of HTMx with us in this session to introduce Hypermedia and HTMx, so you can get first-hand overview of it and hopefully you are hooked to give it a try afterwards!

👉 About Carson Gross

Carson Gross runs Big Sky Software, which finds hot, new trends and then does the opposite of that. Big Sky Software has produced htmx, hyperscript, intercooler.js and many other open source tools. He also teaches Computer Science part time at Montana State University. His main interests are hypermedia, programming languages and general development philosophy.