Initially I wanted to publish such a blog post a year ago. It had been a crazy year since DjangoCon Europe 2022, and I thought that writing some follo

Following up "Mother of all htmx demos"

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Initially I wanted to publish such a blog post a year ago. It had been a crazy year since DjangoCon Europe 2022, and I thought that writing some follow-up a year after that talk would be relevant. Well you know what, the year after that has been even crazier. I am so exhausted that I had to quit the awesome company called Contexte after more than 7 years.

Now here I am: taking some time for myself, launching this blog , and finally taking, with this post, the opportunity to answer some questions that have arisen in the many discussions around htmx. Sorry that took me so long.

This graph of the evolution of htmx Github stars makes me immensely proud, because I feel like my work had an impact on my industry, which seems to have been making wrong decisions for almost a decade:

I’m not interested in judging the guy. We had our issues, but I don’t see them as the primary cause of the failure that our front-end was.

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