[dancer-users] HTMX, simplicity, stability

[Zahir Lalani]

We were considering redoing our front end using Vue - massive project for a system that is 9 years of development. Found HTMX - did a POC and was blown away - we are now using that as our core for all new front end work and will migrate older code as and when we need to.

Z

> 
> Dancer2 developers,
> 
> Are someone picking up on HTMX (http://htmx.org) like Django is doing?
> HTMX finally allows interactivity by the server rather than client Javascript. A
> great relief for us who think the best use of Javascript is minimal.
> 
> I have made a rather large perl based single user DNA analysis package that is
> deployed in industry. Its results outputs are sets of text tables and
> corresponding inter-linked HTML files that the user can navigate.
> Lately the need for more interactivity and instrument control has come about,
> and then I thought of Dancer
> + HTMX. A simple route handler that calls my functions
> that produce smaller or larger pieces of HTML should be enough. No need for
> Plack, an "app" file layout, login, security, just a route handler where I can set
> the port number. Your tutorial, below this appealing
> script:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
> use Dancer2;
> 
> get '/' => sub {
>     return 'Hello World!';
> };
> 
> start;
> 
> state "We want to emphasize that writing a script file like this with a start
> command is not how you would typically begin writing a Dancer2 app." But
> why is that? is there a speed problem? I will have my own cron-loop and could
> just make sure this runs in background, like I do with Apache web server. But I
> must be able to set the port at install time, since
> 3000 may be busy for other things. Also, the route handler will always be on
> localhost, i think.
> 
> Finally, I see long-standing bugs on github and nearly no traffic on the mailing
> list. This makes me wonder if I dare base my package on it.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Niels L
> 
> Niels Larsen, PhD, CEO
> Danish Genome Institute
> Skt. Lucas Kirkeplads 8
> 8000 Aarhus C
> Denmark
> 
> E-mail: niels at genomics.dk
> Skype: niels_larsen_denmark
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