And now for something completely different. In this talk, we will look at htmx, a JavaScript library written to avoid writing JavaScript. We'll discuss the motivation for such a creation and then look at some of the features and implementations of htmx. We will close with a brief look at how people are using the JavaScript library I wrote to avoid writing JavaScript to write JavaScript.

Outline

• 00:00 Introduction
• 03:10 A brief history of web dev
• 06:47 JavaScript: origins
• 08:05 The modern age
• 08:45 Back to hypermedia
• 11:06 What is htmx
• 13:12 htmx demo
• 15:55 Back to JavaScript
• 17:47 Conclusion

About the Presenter

Carson Gross, Creator of htmx