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    </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

    frontend
    hateoas
    html
    htmx
    hyperscript
    javascript
    JavaScript
    NOASSERTION
    49.5K stars
    1.7K forks
    49.5K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 11, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #5 among Frontend repositories tracked this week, and #4 over the last 30 days; #821 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 42%).

    2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 29 days ago, with 458 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #15 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 19, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Enables dynamic web interfaces by extending HTML with AJAX, CSS transitions, WebSockets, and Server Sent Events using custom attributes.
    • Offers a lightweight, dependency-free, and extensible way to build modern hypertext-driven user interfaces without complex JavaScript frameworks.
    • Use for enhancing traditional HTML forms and links to perform asynchronous HTTP requests with minimal JavaScript.
    • Use for creating real-time web applications that leverage WebSockets or Server Sent Events directly in HTML markup.
    • Use for progressively enhancing server-rendered pages with partial updates and smooth CSS transitions without full page reloads.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

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    From the README

    high power tools for HTML

    htmx allows you to access AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext

    htmx is small (~14k min.gz'd), dependency-free & extendable

    By removing these arbitrary constraints htmx completes HTML as a hypertext

    Excerpt from the bigskysoftware/htmx README on GitHub (NOASSERTION license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

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    +1,131 stars over 80 days across 54 snapshot days; best day +45 on Jul 27.

    Forks

    1.7K+60

    Open issues

    273-390

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