The talk begins by challenging the automatic adoption of single-page applications and introduces the context for exploring simpler alternatives like HTMX.
Modern SPA frameworks introduce significant overhead, including complex build steps, dependency management, and performance issues for content-heavy sites.
The evolution from server-rendered pages to client-side SPAs was a long journey, but modern protocols like HTTP/2 enable a return to simpler architectures.
The demonstration uses a backend stack of Kotlin, Spring Boot, and the JTE template engine to serve HTML directly to the client.
A simple button demonstrates how HTMX uses HTML attributes to trigger a server request and swap the returned content into a target element.
The e-commerce shop's product list is rendered on the server using a template engine, showing how components can be built and populated with backend data.
A functional search is first built using a standard HTML form and server-side rendering, ensuring it works without JavaScript as a baseline.
By adding a few HTMX attributes, the standard search form is enhanced to provide live, reactive filtering without a full page reload.
Sensory-Minds GmbH
Offenbach am Main, Germany
23:45Frederik Pietzko
26:00Rainer Hahnekamp
31:21Markus Hatvan
50:10M4dz
40:24Clemens Helm
59:03Florian Rappl
46:13Miško Hevery
24:33Francesco Napoletano
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
OMM Solutions GmbH
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OMM Solutions GmbH
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Sternfort Consulting Gmbh
Bocholt, Germany
