alt Hacker NewsI'm a big fan of returning html instead of json when possible and I've been htmx curious for a bit.
With all the examples people keep using, I assumed it would be way smaller. 16kb minified is a lot.
Looking at the docs just now the core api seems reasonable, but it a lot larger than I'd assumed.
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recursivedoubts • last Thursday at 5:09 PM
our minimalist version of htmx is fixi.js:
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi
1181kb brotli'd (no minification)
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naasking • last Thursday at 3:48 PM
Look into DataStar and Alpine Ajax then, they're much smaller and more targeted.
adamzwasserman • last Thursday at 8:27 PM
Read DATAOS.software for an in depth analysis of bundle sizes and impact on performance.
yawaramin • last Thursday at 6:49 PM
It's much smaller than the final bundle size that most sites will end up loading.
> 16kb minified is a lot
I'd bet that almost any site which isn't intentionally bare bones will have a lot more than 16KB of JS.