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Hypermedia and REST

• HATEOAS
• How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
• Two Approaches To Decoupling
• Hypermedia Clients
• HATEOAS Is For Humans
• Taking HTML Seriously
• The #ViewSource Affordance

Why Hypermedia? Why Multi-Page Applications?

• Hypermedia On Whatever you'd Like (HOWL)
• A Response To "Have SPAs Ruined The Web"
• When To Use Hypermedia?
• The API Churn/Security Trade-off
• Does Hypermedia Scale?

Real World htmx Experiences

• Building Critical Infrastructure with htmx: Network Automation for the Paris 2024 Olympics
• A Real World React to htmx Port
• Another Real World React to htmx Port
• A Real World wasm to htmx Port
• Next.js to htmx — A Real World Example
• You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths

On The Other Hand...

• htmx sucks
• Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx
• A Modest Critique of htmx [Response]
• I tried HTMX, then ditched it
• Alternatives

Building Hypermedia Applications

• Hypermedia-Driven Applications (HDAs)
• Web Security Basics (with htmx)
• Hypermedia Friendly Scripting
• 10 Tips For Building SSR/HDA applications
• Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation
• Template Fragments
• Web Components Work Great with htmx
• View Transitions
• Model/View/Controller
• Is Rendering JSON More Efficient Than Rendering HTML?
• Is JSON Smaller Than HTML?

Complexity Very, Very Bad

• The Grug Brained Developer
• Codin' Dirty
• Locality of Behavior (LoB)
• Complexity Budget
• Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step
• Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
• htmx Implementation Deep Dive (Video)
• Vendoring

Hypermedia Research

• A File Structure For The Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate (Ted Nelson, 1965)
• The Mother Of All Demos (Doug Englebart, 1968)
• The First Web Page (1991)
• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (Roy Fielding, 2000)
• State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues and Applications (2006) [archive]
• How Primer has changed the way we write JavaScript for the better at Facebook (Makinde Adeagbo and Tom Occhino, 2010) [archive.org mirror] [youtube mirror]
• Hypermedia Controls: Feral to Formal (ACM HT'24)
• Preserving REST-ful Visibility Of Rich Web Applications With Generalized Hypermedia Controls (ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, Autumn'24)

Interviews

• Henning Koch, creator of Unpoly
• Makinde Adeagbo, creator of Primer
• Chris Wanstrath aka @defunkt, creator of pjax
• Mike Amundsen, author of RESTful Web APIs
• Leonard Richardson, creator of the RMM

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