high power tools for HTML
introduction
htmx allows you to access AJAX,
WebSockets and Server Sent Events
directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build
modern user interfaces with the simplicity and
power of hypertext
htmx is small (~8k min.gz'd),
dependency-free,
extendable &
IE11 compatible
motivation
- Why should only
<a>and<form>be able to make HTTP requests? - Why should only
click&submitevents trigger them? - Why should only GET & POST be available?
- Why should you only be able to replace the entire screen?
By removing these arbitrary constraints htmx completes HTML as a
hypertext
quick start
<!-- Load from unpkg -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@0.2.0"></script>
<!-- have a button POST a click via AJAX -->
<button hx-post="/clicked" hx-swap="outerHTML">
Click Me
</button>
The hx-post and hx-swap attributes tell htmx:
"When a user clicks on this button, issue an AJAX request to /clicked, and replace the entire button with the response"
htmx is the successor to intercooler.js
website & docs
contributing
- please write code, including tests, in ES5 for IE 11 compatibility
- please include test cases in
/testand docs in/www - if you are adding a feature, consider doing it as an extension instead to
keep the core htmx code tidy - development pull requests should be against the
devbranch, docs fixes can be made directly againstmaster
haiku
javascript fatigue:
longing for a hypertext
already in hand