I count about ~6 generic submissions to htmx root domain or direct /docs with upvotes. More generally it's higher if you include blog posts or self-HN posts. The original submission had 728 upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23330881
I suspect HTMX is more of an idea that people like to talk about on HN more generally, like Clojure and Erlang. Being the underdog matters on social media. Maybe it feels more authentic or relevant to discourse because it's still niche.
> I suspect HTMX is more of an idea that people like to talk about on HN more generally, like Clojure and Erlang. Being the underdog matters on social media. Maybe it feels more authentic or relevant to discourse because it's still niche.
Pretty glib take.
The more exposure this stuff gets the better. I'd really like to have more job options out there that don't involve maintaining an internal web API so that two applications you own can talk to each other.
I might have been using HN too long but you start to notice some pet technologies everyone here loves to safely upvote on HN but IRL stays niche for a reason. Especially in the serious business world of software development, not side projects or stuff we like talking about on social media. And I say that as a big fan of both Erlang and Clojure.
It can, though. Lots of enterprise apps are just page after page of forms, as was the one enterprise app I worked on. There's no reason those things need frontend frameworks talking through APIs to separate backends. It's good for jobs, of course.
