I have a personal project for managing my monthly bills. Ten years ago I wrote it in React (and even posted it here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010853 - zero comments lol). Recently I rewrote it using HTMX and the newly-beta Web Awesome.
I'm really happy with the result. IMO it feels like a 2025 website should – it has animations, loading indicators, a nice theme, etc. No landing page though. Again, I wrote this to solve my own problem, not to create a product to sell.
I'd encourage folks to check it out to see that an HTMX site can look & feel just as modern as a React site.
NB: use dummy data and bogus emails – I don't want your real data.
I posted this for the htmx-curious, who can use fake emails and fake data, because you're absolutely right: no one should be signing up for random sites with their real info.
I am an HTMX enthusiast, I'm not so worried about privacy and such, it's just a barrier to a good demo. I should click that link and see something that knocks my socks off -- that's a good demo. Providing an email and password to log in for the demo would be one way to grease those skids, but I really should see something on the first page that makes me interested.
That's fair. I'd probably go through the effort to do that if I was trying to promote my product, but I'm just here promoting htmx/webawesome. Or, more specifically, I've seen plenty of comments on HN asking if anyone has examples of real sites using htmx, and there's been surprisingly few, so I just wanted to do my part and add one lol
I've been experimenting with HTMX + Shoelace for the last few months. I'm really rooting for Shoelace/Web Awesome to thrive! Especially since Material Web seemed to quickly end up in maintenance mode, I'm hoping Web Awesome becomes the MUI of web components
> since Material Web seemed to quickly end up in maintenance mode
This is really unfortunate to say the least - the engineering team has done a fantastic job there, but apparently no backing from Google despite the nice promise at the the launch of Material Web.
I think there's some link between the two. Like Polymer was handed off to a new team/owner/governance model and was renamed to Lit in the process. Could be wrong, but that's what I've gathered.
HTMX and shoelace is an awesome combo. Super fast to prototype things and tweak as needed. Being able to copy paste snippets and directly inject data in a straightforward way is a nice way of working. It limits cognitive overhead so you can focus on the domain logic rather than fight javascript dependencies.
(I know we _can_ use them still but it's hard to convince teams of people to stick with them and ignore what the docs say are best practices for the last five years.)
Completely agree. Class components are so beautifully simple. Hooks have infuriating edge cases and are so bizarre they need ESLint plugins to remind people how they work.
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