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Ask HN: Htmx vs. Livewire?

3 points| jerawaj749 | 1 year ago

please give me a clear advice wich better for me, i want it to be simple and just focus on building my projects

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syndicatedjelly|1 year ago

I dont have xp with livewire, but htmx has been really powerful and expressive for what I want to do with my Django app. By comparison, I also work in a typescript/nextjs codebase, which dumps a whole plethora of unnecessary side concerns on the developer, preventing them from actually focusing on application logic and the external problem to be solved

Htmx has been such a breath of fresh air by comparison, because i just need to worry about request/response patterns. It is orders of magnitude easier to reason about htmx, versus nextjs’s frustratingly inscrutable code patterns.

“Ability to be reasoned about” is far more important to me as a developer using any technology, than almost anything else, including purported performance benefits that many react-based frameworks claim to have