The htmx team released an essay highlighting its future direction, focusing on providing a low-cost and high-value resource for web developers. The approach centers on maintaining backward compatibility and ensuring stability, allowing applications built with htmx to function effectively for years without requiring changes. Drawing parallels with jQuery, the essay emphasizes htmx’s intention to create a stable API, limit disruptive changes, and document current quirks. These efforts aim to reassure developers that their work with htmx will remain relevant and usable for the long term.
The htmx team recently released an essay addressing the future of htmx with an emphasis on its role as a low-cost, stable addition for web developers.
htmx aims to adopt a stable API and implementation, ensuring that upgrades do not force disruptive changes and maintain backward compatibility.
Alex Petros highlighted that the web platform offers higher durability guarantees for applications compared to desktop or mobile, enhancing longevity through compatibility.
The essay outlines the htmx commitment to document existing implementation quirks and stresses that users shouldn't feel the need to upgrade unless addressing specific issues.
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