The HTMX Audit: When Simplicity Isn’t Enough
The HTMX Audit I was recently asked to review a production web application built over 18 months if I have anything to save their soul. I specifically asked to audit a thriving internal web app started as a prototype in 2023 built by a team enamored with HTMX. This is a small-sized SaaS company focused on hospitality industry, a team of 4 developers with mostly backend-focused engineers, what posibly go wrong you ask? They ditched React, promised simplicity, and believed they’d found web nirvana. Spoiler: they didn’t—at least not at scale. ...