HTMX, Web 1.0 and JavaScript Fatigue - Hypermedia Systems by Gross, Stepinski, & Akşimşek

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the first 200 pages of Hypermedia Systems by Carson Gross, Adam Stepinski, and Deniz Akşimşek. Join them as they discuss HTMX, an alternative to modern JavaScript front-end frameworks, and the philosophies that made Web 1.0 so powerful!

Roast Nathan's htmx todo-app on github:
https://github.com/n2p5/htmxwtf/tree/main/x/todo

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Hypermedia Systems by Carson Gross, Adam Stepinski, and Deniz Akşimşek
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REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards, Neal Ford
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00:00 Intro
03:35 About the Book
06:22 Thoughts on the Book
13:25 What is Hypermedia?
27:44 Our impressions of htmx
44:20 Will this gain widespread adoption?
53:57 Are we stuck with the frameworks we have today?
01:02:42 Final Thoughts

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