Locality of Behaviour by htmx

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Recommended as a short essay on keeping component behaviour close to its markup, written by the htmx author.

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Written by the htmx author
“I personally like this essay by the author of htmx on the topic”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS”
Pushes back on common stack patterns
“is a good fight back as exemplified in many stacks”
Comment from 7 May 2026 in “ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?”

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“I personally like this essay by the author of htmx on the topic”

RecommendsComment from 16 May 2026 in “Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS”

“is a good fight back as exemplified in many stacks”

RecommendsComment from 7 May 2026 in “ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?”

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