--- layout: layout.njk tags: ['posts', 'announcements'] title: htmx 1.0.0 has been released! date: 2020-11-24 --- ## htmx 1.0.0 Release I'm happy to announce the [1.0.0 release](https://unpkg.com/browse/htmx.org@1.0.0/) of htmx. htmx is now mature enough that I can recommend it as a general replacement for intercooler.js projects. I **don't** think there is a strong reason to port an existing intercooler project to htmx. I have several large intercooler apps and will not be moving them over any time soon. I can, however, recommend using htmx over intercooler for new projects. htmx is a different sort of javascript library. It is an HTML & hypertext-oriented reply to the current dominance of javascript-based SPA libraries. It is a response to Tom MacWright's question: ["If not SPAs, What?"](https://macwright.com/2020/10/28/if-not-spas.html). As the [homepage says](https://htmx.org): * Why should only `` and `
` be able to make HTTP requests? * Why should only `click` & `submit` events trigger them? * Why should only GET & POST be available? * Why should you only be able to replace the entire screen? HTML-oriented web development was abandoned not because hypertext was a bad idea, but rather because HTML didn't have sufficient expressive power. htmx aims to fix that & allows you to implement [many common modern web UI patterns](https://htmx.org/examples/) using the original hypertext model of the web. ### History & Thanks htmx began life as [intercooler.js](https://intercoolerjs.org) back in [2013](https://github.com/bigskysoftware/intercooler-js/commit/62d3dbdb5c056ee866aba3575e148de649fc3efe). In [april](https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/commit/e38dea64dd1065003a0e833d7b469d24e6bc2919) of this year I began work on a jQuery-indepenent & improved version of intercoolerjs, renamed to htmx. I chose to rename the library because, in working on intercooler, I had come to appreciate that intercooler & htmx were completing HTML as a hypertext rather than just some funky, idiosyncratic javascript libraries. In [May](https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/releases/tag/v0.0.1) htmx reached 0.0.1. Soon thereafter I had the good fortune of being contacted by [Ben Croker](https://twitter.com/ben_pylo) who was interested in htmx as a base for his new reactive library, [Sprig](https://putyourlightson.com/plugins/sprig). Ben was willing to be an early adopter of htmx and pushed the library along much faster than it would have gone otherwise. I have been very lucky to the have help and feedback from many contributors in [Github](https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/graphs/contributors) and on [Discord](https://htmx.org/discord). I'd like to thank, in particular, [Ben Pate](https://github.com/benpate), [Robert Schroll](https://github.com/rschroll) & [Alejandro Schmeichler](https://github.com/jreviews) for contributing code as well as new ideas and discussions. I would like to thank [Devmode.fm](https://devmode.fm/) for having me on to [talk about htmx](https://devmode.fm/episodes/dynamic-html-with-htmx) and for cleaning up all my "uhhs" and "umms". Finally, I would like to thank [Justin Sampson](https://github.com/jsampson), who took a lot of time to explain REST & HATEOAS to me and how intercooler (and now htmx) fit into that model for web development. ### Changes * I bumped the version number :) Enjoy!