RefreshLess was chosen as the #Drupal module of the week on Talking Drupal 514!
Your #serverrendered #php can feel like an app with minimal theme changes, all without sacrificing crawlability or resiliency (if JS fails, etc.). It's currently implemented using Hotwire Turbo, but we'd like to port it to #htmx, fix remaining bugs, and make it even more robust.
Want to learn more or help out?
Excited to announce our first keynote speaker for DjangoCon US 2025: Carson Gross!
Carson is the creator of HTMX and will be sharing insights on "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology" - applying Nintendo Game Boy designer Gunpei Yokoi's philosophy to web development.
Can't wait! 
@judell hey, this is very interesting. The old VB UI in a new web jacket. I just tooted about the Rube Goldberg machine that is modern web dev, and in some ways I was more empowered at the start of my career in 1997 with Visual Basic.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114878688112419149
You might have a look if maybe there isn't a cool combination to make with #Datastar at https://data-star.dev which recently went v1.0
They continue where #HTMX stopped, in #hypermedia land, where they use #WebComponents for complex UI.
the back button works on all my websites :)
history maintenance is built-in with #htmx. that's one of the reasons i like it.
In 2025, #HTMX is still a broken development pattern #europython2025
I have really been enjoying learning HTML and CSS. Working on rebuilding my personal site and moving away from WordPress. It's been quite a few years since I last used HTML in any serious way and I still have a bit to learn and master.
A few folks have mentioned HTMX so I am going to start looking into this next.
#html #css #htmx
Put together a pretty cool live @ListenBrainz widget on my website! Auto-updates every 10 seconds, and shows as much metadata as I can cram into the widget space. All that metadata is the bonus of ListenBrainz being so closely tied to MusicBrainz
(and don't worry, I have some pretty aggressive caching so I won't hammer the ListenBrainz or MusicBrainz APIs)
Colophon for https://beesocial.dev for anyone interested: https://beesocial.dev/colophon.
No vibe coding, just good vibes.
> There is a better way. And it doesn’t require a complete rewrite of the internet or a return to 2005.
The way’s #HTMX – server-side rendering, clean accessible html, but with interactive controls unavailable in 2005 (or even today in pure html). But no complex “frontend-side logic”.
#HTMX is growing on me.
It felt weird at first to generate frontend from the backend. But I gave in because writing more code at the backend was way too tempting. I just can't hold #javascript right.
Using templates and SQL, creating frontend using #php and htmx is pretty nice. Kind of feel like doing #graphql and #Rest together.
But at the end of the day, I am writing less javascript and it is great.
Ep182: Event Sourcing with Chris May is now live!
@_chrismay is a Senior Staff Engineer at WellSky, a software company in the health industry. We discuss his background as a graphic designer, learning #Python (and #Django as an adult, his multiple conference talks on #HTMX, why he’s a fan of event sourcing, and more.
#htmx is a small JavaScript library that extends HTML markup to make web pages more dynamic. Check out how to add htmx to your #Django project! https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2021/how-to-htmx-django/
…And there are more interesting tid-bits in there too:
• See how I’m pushing Kitten’s Streaming HTML to its logical conclusion and streaming JavaScript from the server to the client to keep all logic on the server while implementing a client-side feature (copy to clipboard): https://codeberg.org/small-web/look-over-there/src/branch/main/CopyButton.component.js
• Following on from that, note how the Toast component that’s triggered when something is copied looks (under the hood, Streaming HTML is htmx + WebSockets + some Kitten-specific magic and glues it all together and adds syntactic sugar): https://codeberg.org/small-web/look-over-there/src/branch/main/Toast.fragment.js
• Finally, check out how layout components and slots work: https://codeberg.org/small-web/look-over-there/src/branch/main/Site.layout.js
I think that’s all the intersting stuff I can spot at the moment.
Have fun!
I made it easier to define #HTMX templates in my #SpringFunk HTMX library: https://wakingrufus.github.io/spring-funk/htmx.html#templates
New Kitten Release
• Fix: morph attributes¹ now support interpolated values.
Enjoy!
¹ The morph attribute is Kitten’s shorthand for the hx-swap-oob attribute of htmx, which Kitten uses – and extends – under the hood. To learn more about it, see Kitten’s Streaming HTML tutorial: https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/streaming-html/
I am working on adding a module to #SpringFunk that seamlessly integrates #HTMX, the #Kotlin HTML DSL and #SpringBoot https://wakingrufus.github.io/spring-funk/htmx.html
It is in a very early stage right now, but I think this idea has some potential.
New Kitten release
• New: Lovely new icons¹ and new callouts in Kitten Settings²
• New: Markdown now supports attributes and bracketed spans³
• New: client-side `kitten` global with `trigger` function for triggering events on the server from the client. (Useful when streaming client-side JavaScript when using Kitten’s Streaming HTML⁴ workflow. e.g., when you have to use a client-only web API like the Clipboard API but you want to keep all your logic on your server-side page.⁵)
• Fixed: The bound render function returned by `KittenComponent` class’s `component` getter now correctly awaits asynchronous templates. (In Kitten, you don’t have to care whether your templates contain promises. Kitten handles all that for you.)
Enjoy!
¹ https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#icons
² https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114381983893061099
³ https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#markdown-support (also see https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114381462302862256)
⁴ https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/streaming-html/
⁵ e.g., See how I use this to implement a copy to clipboard button in the database page of Kitten’s Settings: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/web/%F0%9F%90%B1/settings%F0%9F%94%92/db/index.page.js#L33 Of course, you don’t have to use this and you can just write client-side JavaScript or use the built-in Alpine.js integration. e.g., how I do it on the (older) settings/identity page: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/web/%F0%9F%90%B1/settings%F0%9F%94%92/identity/index.page.js#L7
