Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)

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Started by rafalp on Dec. 12, 2023 in the Roadmap category. 6 replies, last one from July 25, 2024.

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But here’s a thing: there’s a lot of forum software out there that still does the old way of rendering as much as possible on the server and using some JavaScript on client to improve its interactivity here and there. And people are happy with that . And this approach has none of the above issues.

Internet forum software has plenty of interactivity, but this interactivity is isolated to specific places on the page. Moderation actions, watching a thread, writing a reply, seeing last notifications, voting in a poll. All this stuff can be achieved without React.js and was achieved without it for years before we’ve decided that full page reload is something that needs to be avoided.

Now, what’s HTMX? HTMX is a tiny library that lets developers specify parts of HTML as dynamic islands that can be swapped by new server-rendered HTML on interaction. For example, list of actual threads is one such (large) island.

HTMX is declarative way of doing $.get(“url”, “#outlet”) we’ve did in jQuery 20 years ago. Or Rails Turbolinks.

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