I recently attended python web conf 2022 and after seeing some incredible presentations on it I am excited to give htmx a try.
The base page
Start with some html boilerplate, pop in a script tag to add the htmx.org script, and a button that says click me. I added just a tish of style so that it does not sear your delicate developer your eyes.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<style>
html { background: #1f2022; color: #eefbfe; font-size: 64px; }
button {font-size: 64px;}
body { height: 100vh; width: 100vw; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items:center; }
</style>
<!-- Load from unpkg -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@1.7.0"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- have a button POST a click via AJAX -->
<button hx-get="/partial" hx-swap="outerHTML">
Click Me
</button>
</body>
</html>
Save this as index.html and fire up a webserver and you will be presented with this big beefcake of a button.
If you don't have a development server preference I reccomend opening the terminal and running python -m http.server 8000 then opening your browser to localhost:8000
The Partial
Now the page has a button that is ready to replace itself, notice the
hx-swap="outerHTML">, with the contents of /partial. To create a
static api of sorts we can simply host a partial page in a file at
/partial/index.html with the following contents.
<p>
hello
</p>
Tree
To make it a bit clearer here is what the file tree looks like after setting this up.
~/git/htmx v3.9.7 (git)
❯ tree
.
├── clicked
│ └── index.html
└── index.html
Demo
I added htmx to this page and setup a partial below, check out this easter egg.
Click Me
Top comments (1)
This seems like pretty interesting stuff!
First time hearing about it