HTML Over the Wire

Choosing HTMX

Lesson 5 of 5

Hypermedia wins where state lives on the server — CRUD, admin, forms; a React SPA wins on rich client state, realtime, and offline — and either way the app ships as one binary with htmx vendored in.

What you'll learn

Judge honestly where hypermedia wins and where a React SPA is the better call
Recognize the signals: who owns the state, and how much lives in the client
Ship the whole app as one static binary with htmx vendored and embedded

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