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HTMX powers the UI for my AI transcription product TurboScribe (https://turboscribe.ai). Dynamic UIs that change without a page refresh, lazy loading, multi-step forms/flows, etc. It's working GREAT.
My general take on HTMX is:
1) You need to have your act together on your server. Because HTMX pushes more onto your backend, you need to know what you're doing back there (with whatever tech stack you happen to be using).
I have a friend who teaches at a coding boot camp and they do not teach students about server-rendered HTML at all. Folks coming from this world are going to have a tougher time ramping up on something like HTMX.
2) HTMX is great for the 90%+ of common UI paradigms shared by most apps (form submissions, validation, error messages, partial page reloads, lazy loading, CRUD UIs, etc).
If you have a key, critical experience that demands highly dynamic or novel interactivity, you're going to find yourself reaching to either (a) extend HTMX, or (b) create an island powered by raw JS, React, etc.
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I love HTMX. It's a fantastic tool for delivering quality product (often with much lower engineering cost).
It feels really crummy to be accused and convicted of an "offense" by an algorithm, especially without any recourse.
I once had my account with a major cloud provider terminated for "violating our terms of service". After contacting support, they then claimed that someone had gained access to my credentials.
What evidence did they have? None. I just updated a VM's metadata too frequently (about once a minute). This tripped an ML model, which caused them to automatically terminate my account and send an automated email saying that I had been a bad boy.
This took down a key part of my business for about 5 hours (while I navigated my way through layers of customer support and ultimately temporarily moved this functionality to another cloud provider). Customers were not happy.
It took about 2 weeks and multiple support tickets for the full story to come out. I got them to refund a few months of charges (amounted to several hundred dollars at the time) and restore my account. There was never any recognition that they made a mistake.
I get that companies need to resort to automated means to handle fraud or abuse. But they should also own up to it, add some humility in their automated outreach to customers ("our automated system has detected possible X" instead of "you are guilty"), provide clear escalation paths to talk to a human, and provide a way to "shield" your account (identity verification, upfront deposit of $X, etc) that forces them to contact you before any enforcement action.
In my case, I upgraded to a paid support plan ($100+ per month) in the hopes that their system will be a little less trigger happy with my account in the future. I don't use support at all, it's purely a lame form of insurance that may or may not actually protect against anything.