Talking Drupal #514 - HTMX

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 HTMX Sucks Locality of behavior Future of HTMX 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