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Less Htmx Is More

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169 points fanf2 | 1 comments | 4/8/2025, 8:42:00 AM | HN request time: 0.367s | source
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chabska ◴[4/8/2025, 9:23:00 AM] No.43619770[source]▶

> In practice, this is virtually impossible to get right

Somehow every other JS frontend framework manages to hook into the History API just fine?

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mort96 ◴[4/8/2025, 10:07:00 AM] No.43619991[source]▶

The amount of times when I've clicked a link, hit the back button, nothing happens, I hit the back button again and I go 2 steps back in history...

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harvie ◴[4/8/2025, 10:10:00 AM] No.43620004[source]▶

Ever considered the website authors don't want you to go back? :-D

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1. leni536 ◴[4/8/2025, 10:12:00 AM] No.43620013[source]▶

I'm sure this move improves some engagement metric.