HTMX

26 engineers on Hacker News describe using HTMX first-hand: 18 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.

88%trust
26first-hand users
17in production
endorse 18mixed 1regret 1uses, no opinion

“For our Rails app we replaced most of our Hotwired/Turbo with HTMX. For me at least, HTMX just makes more sense”

endorse · production · dajonker · 2026-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“there's nothing that htmx provides that helps me with that in a way that's worth the weight.”

regret · personal · catapart · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I can sprinkle in little bits of interactivity using something like HTMX.”

endorse · personal · sksksk · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Tried Htmx a while back... mixed feelings. Love how easy it is to get basic interactivity”

mixed · personal · Babawomba · 2024-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we went off react to vanilla js, htmx and liveview type stuff which makes this all far simpler.”

endorse · production · anonzzzies · 2024-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“for clog/cl and go/live/htmx (we rewrote two of our largest products)”

endorse · production · anonzzzies · 2024-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I just serve a static .html file containing everything that can be static with HTMX requests to fetch the rest.”

endorse · personal · merely-unlikely · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using it to build a nontrivial site for a few months... it's been pleasant to use overall”

endorse · personal · gen220 · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“increased productivity and less resource. Basically we don't care about philosophy, paradigm, etc. It works, we use it.”

endorse · production · code-baker-9000 · 2023-02-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“HTMX writes quite a bit of the logic for us. We don't need to test that logic because we can assume that it's been tested.”

endorse · production · niels_bom · 2022-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Been building in HTMX for the last month and I'm loving the new paradigm.”

endorse · personal · 0.08 yr · devmunchies · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“some htmx and Alpinejs for the more heavily interactive parts of a moderately complex application”

endorse · production · DLA · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm using htmx in production since one year. From game (scrabble game with board refresh, chat and so on -with sse extension-) and cms to professional crud apps.”

endorse · production · 1 yr · kaeshiwaza · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I prefer to do most stuff in htmx these days.”

endorse · production · graboid · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use htmx to load the content for modals, so we have small handlers on htmx events”

endorse · production · adamckay · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“that coupled with the elimination of the complicated development configurations, is a huge win in simplicity and productivity.”

endorse · production · silver-arrow · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Have been using htmx for a little over a year now, and I am so thankful for this library.”

endorse · production · 1 yr · silver-arrow · 2022-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using HTMX with modal and drawer web components. It has been nice to specify interactive pieces of content in a nice declarative way.”

endorse · personal · megaman821 · 2022-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We like the 37signals approach of shipping "HTML over the wire".”

endorse · production · haacked · 2022-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I am using HTMX in production in two applications - it's sped development considerably.”

endorse · production · jonathan-adly · 2021-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My only experience of HTMX in production entailed porting Stimulus code, hence the partials”

neutral · production · troad · 2025-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At my day job we use Django with HTMX and Alpine”

neutral · production · HiPhish · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“PostgREST Htmx for just simple data-centric components.”

neutral · personal · jadbox · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Product information view and search system using FastAPI and HTMX (for live search)”

neutral · production · yosoyhxr · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've written some demos in CL with htmx ... and have it shipping in production.”

neutral · production · worthless-trash · 2023-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using HTMX to send "server push" updates over SSE”

neutral · personal · w_t_payne · 2020-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?