</> htmx ~ The future of htmx

htmx began life as intercooler.js, a library built around jQuery that added behavior based on HTML attributes. For developers who are not familiar with it, jQuery is a venerable JavaScript library that made writing cross-platform JavaScript a lot easier during a time when browser implementations were very inconsistent, and JavaScript didn’t have many of the convenient APIs and features that it does now. Today many web developers consider jQuery to be “legacy software.” With all due respect to this perspective, jQuery is currently used on 75% of all public websites, a number that dwarfs all other JavaScript tools. Why has jQuery remained so ubiquitous?.