Talking Drupal #514 - HTMX

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Today we are talking about HTMX, What it is, and why it could be a game changer for Drupal with our guests Shawn Duncan & Carson Gross. We’ll also cover RefreshLess as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/514

Topics

What is HTMX
HTMX and Drupal Integration
Community and Contribution
Discussing HTMX and Its Integration
HTMX's Stability and Composition
Programming with HTMX: A Lego-like Experience
Drupal's HTMX Initiative
Proof of Concept and Community Involvement
HTMX's Flexibility and Developer Experience
Big Pipe and HTMX Integration
Comparing HTMX with Hotwire Turbo
Getting Involved with the HTMX Initiative

Resources

[Plan] Gradually replace Drupal's AJAX system with HTMX
HTMX in core Proof of Concept
HTMX contrib module
HTMX Documentation
Hypermedia Systems - Carson’s book
A comparison of Hypermedia Application architecture with Single Page Application. Available for purchase and free online.
Academic Paper on HTMX
FACET
Essays
Drupal community initiatives
Contrast of htmx vs hotwire
grugbrain
Primeagen
Fireship dev

Guests

Shawn Duncan - HTMX intiative fathershawn Carson Gross - bigsky.software 1cg

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Rich Lawson - richlawson.co rklawson

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to give your Drupal site a more application-like feel, by only reloading parts of the page that need to change? There’s a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- RefreshLess
Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2016 by Wim Leers, but recent releases are by ambient.impact, a fellow Canadian
- Versions available: 2.0.0-alpha9
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Documentation
- Number of open issues: 40 open issues, only 2 of which are active bugs against the current branch
Usage stats:
- 2 sites
Module features and usage
- The RefreshLess module aims to give Drupal sites a smooth, fast, and responsive experience by using Javascript to selectively update the parts of the existing page that need to change, instead of a full page refresh. It uses the HTML5 History API to ensure the browsing behaviour is equivalent, and unsupported browsers will see a standard page refresh instead
- Using RefreshLess also makes it possible to use transitions (with or without the View Transition API in modern browsers), morphing, and persistent elements to enhance the application-like feel
- There is some indication that sites may encounter issues if they use RefreshLess with JS aggregation enabled, so it’s probably better to use it if your site has HTTP/2 enabled
- RefreshLess is currently built on the Turbo library originally built for Ruby on Rails, but there is already an issue open to move the implementation to use HTMX instead

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