HTMX - Does it promotes a back to monolith (vs microservices) approach?

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Server side rendering and Server side sessions do promote a classical approach (monolith) to web applications, vs a more distributed (microservices, but also frontend) application architecture. Is it true? I was looking for a way to have a microservice / microfrontend approach...

Wim Deblauwe

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Hi,

I think that is not really true. With microservices, you usually have a backend-for-frontend (BFF) that orchestrates the calls to the other microservices and prepares the JSON in an easy-to-use format for the Single Page Application. If you do server-side rendering, the BFF itself could be the server-side renderer in a microservices architecture.

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Wim

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Thanks for your reply - really interesting

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Wim Deblauwe wrote:

I think that is not really true. With microservices, you usually have a backend-for-frontend (BFF) that orchestrates the calls to the other microservices and prepares the JSON in an easy-to-use format for the Single Page Application. If you do server-side rendering, the BFF itself could be the server-side renderer in a microservices architecture.

Does this imply that htmx does not make use of any kind of Ajax or XMLHttpRequest ? Thus, is server-side rendering the only option to update a page?

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Roland

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Roland Mueller wrote:Does this imply that htmx does not make use of any kind of Ajax or XMLHttpRequest ? Thus, is server-side rendering the only option to update a page?

To the contrary, I think HTMX makes heavy use of XMLHttpRequest (or websockets). It just means that the HTML is prepared ("rendered") on the server, and then sent in small chunks to the frontend, without having to update the entire page. So that's in contrast to a web service approach that prepares the data on the server, and then performs the rendering into HTML on the frontend.

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That is correct Tim

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