React Throws a Curveball

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React.run

I'm one of them. React is pretty much all I've ever known to a deeper extent in web development. Though I grew to appreciate it over time, I've been concerned about React lately. It's changed. Now it is best used within frameworks, supposedly. There's Next.js, Remix, Gatsby... Just what we all needed: more tools on top of tools on top of tools. Each with its own sets of standards.

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htmx

It's not a coincidence, I don't think, that HTMX gained so much traction in 2023. It offers us a glimpse of a simpler past and what could (if only maybe) be a simpler, more hypermedia-driven future for the web. Do we really need all these complicated libraries and frameworks to handle DOM manipulations on fat clients? If this question didn't resonate with developers, having only heard about HTMX from others I myself would probably have never found out about it. But here we are.

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