</> htmx ~ The future of htmx
For developers who are not familiar with it, jQuery is a venerable JavaScript library that made writing cross-platform JavaScript a lot easier during a time when browser implementations were very inconsistent, and JavaScript didn’t have many of the convenient APIs and features that it does now.
Today many web developers consider jQuery to be “legacy software.” With all due respect to this perspective, jQuery is currently used on 75% of all public websites, a number that dwarfs all other JavaScript tools.
Now, that’s a ridiculous (and arrogant) statement to make, of course, but it is an ideal that we on the htmx team are striving for.
In particular, we want to emulate these technical characteristics of jQuery that make it such a low-cost, high-value addition to the toolkits of web developers. Alex has discussed “Building The 100 Year Web Service” and we want htmx to be a useful tool for exactly that use case.
Websites that are built with jQuery stay online for a very long time, and websites built with htmx should be capable of the same (or better).
