Simon Willison’s Weblog

The future of htmx. Carson Gross and Alex Petros lay out an ambitious plan for htmx: stay stable, add few features and try to earn the same reputation for longevity that jQuery has (estimated to be used on 75.3% of websites).

In particular, we want to emulate these technical characteristics of jQuery that make it such a low-cost, high-value addition to the toolkits of web developers. Alex has discussed "Building The 100 Year Web Service" and we want htmx to be a useful tool for exactly that use case.

Websites that are built with jQuery stay online for a very long time, and websites built with htmx should be capable of the same (or better).

Going forward, htmx will be developed with its existing users in mind. [...]

People shouldn’t feel pressure to upgrade htmx over time unless there are specific bugs that they want fixed, and they should feel comfortable that the htmx that they write in 2025 will look very similar to htmx they write in 2035 and beyond.

# 6th January 2025, 11:35 pm / jquery, htmx