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HTMX
High power tools for HTML - access AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets directly in HTML
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Scalability
high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
easy
Maturity
stable
Languages: JavaScript, HTML
Architecture: hypermedia, server-driven
When to Use
- +Server-rendered apps
- +Progressive enhancement
- +Simple interactivity
When Not to Use
- -Complex SPAs
- -Offline-first apps
- -Heavy client state
Strengths
- 44k+ stars
- Simple mental model
- No build step
- Backend-agnostic
- Small size
Weaknesses
- Limited for complex SPAs
- Different paradigm
- Less ecosystem than React
Operations
Maintenance
low
Monitoring
low
Backup/Recovery
simple
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud
Quick Facts
- Category
- Frontend Framework
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- rapidly growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- none
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmediumlarge
Use Cases
- Dynamic HTML
- Progressive enhancement
- Server-side apps
- Hypermedia APIs
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