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fixi.js
A tiny, minimalist JavaScript library that adds htmx-style behavior through a plain script tag. Critics say it largely rebuilds ideas from earlier frameworks like React and jQuery.
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A tiny, minimalist JavaScript library that adds htmx-style behavior through a plain script tag. Critics say it largely rebuilds ideas from earlier frameworks like React and jQuery.
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Why people love it
Minimalist, simple, powerful design · 3
you can check out fixi if you want to see a minimalist take on it
Aug 2026 · commentFixi is extremately simple but extremately powerful at a time.
Aug 2026 · commentcheck out fixi for our ultra-minimalist take on the idea
Jan 2026 · commentSmall footprint, drops in via script tag · 2
Fixi and htmx extensions follow the 80/20 principle and can work by just being dropped in with a script tag.
Aug 2026 · commentAll have smaller footprints.
Dec 2025 · comment
What people warn about
Rebuilds ideas from React and jQuery · 2
the Author is starting to understand the reason React and the likes exists and has start to build them over again
Aug 2026 · commentHe is catching up though, now approaching the early 2010s jQuery (moxi) and backbonejs era with fixiproject.org
Aug 2026 · comment
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Every quote
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Fixi and htmx extensions follow the 80/20 principle and can work by just being dropped in with a script tag.
Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Htmx 4.0”
you can check out fixi if you want to see a minimalist take on it
Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Htmx 4.0”
Fixi is extremately simple but extremately powerful at a time.
Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Htmx 4.0”
check out fixi for our ultra-minimalist take on the idea
Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “htmx: Server Sent Event (SSE) Extension”
All have smaller footprints.
Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Please just try HTMX”
the Author is starting to understand the reason React and the likes exists and has start to build them over again
Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Htmx 4.0”
He is catching up though, now approaching the early 2010s jQuery (moxi) and backbonejs era with fixiproject.org
Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Htmx 4.0”
yeah if that's a problem you can always use fixi
Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy”
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