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@zachleat Suppose I wanted to run #Eleventy using its own dev server, but I also wanted to tinker with #HTMX (https://htmx.org) to learn about it.

Q1: Is this possible now?

Q2: Will this be possible in the not-too-distant future?

htmx - high power tools for html

htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.
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#eleventy #htmx @Zach Leatherman :11ty:
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probably? I’m not super familiar with the server side requirements of htmx, are there any or is it just left open?
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Zearin
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@eleventy I’ve only read up and watched a few videos.

The articles on the HTMX site are very good, and get at the reasoning behind its design.

I think it aligns well with the “bring back the indie web” movement.

This is not sufficient explanation, but basically HTMX uses markup-defined hooks to send and receive very precise snippets of HTML from the server.

@Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0-alpha.10
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Kerfuffle
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@eleventy Combining SSR with a static site generator isn't the first combination I'd be looking for, but according to https://htmx.org/docs/#requests any server that can respond to an AJAX request and send HTML would suffice. HTMX 2 will also support websockets and SSE; not sure if 11ty does?

htmx ~ Documentation

htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.
htmx.org
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