htmx/TODO.md

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HTML Extensions

GOALS

• Dependency-free implementation of intercooler.js-like HTML-driven AJAX functionality
• Minimalist functionality, rely heavily on built in functionality
• Support IE10+ ** CSS transitions only ** Pluggable event model
• < 10k in .min form

TODOS

• event model for pluggability
• history support
  • Implement LRU
  • Issue GET to restore content if there isn't a copy locally
• sse support
• polling (ic-trigger="every 2s")
• delay (ic-trigger="keyup" ic-delay="1s")
• implement element properties using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/WeakMap
  • make node handling idempotent
  • don't cancel trigger events, but don't process additional events
  • don't issue multiple requests on multiple clicks
• distribute on https://unpkg.com/
• build website with 11ty
  • landing page
  • docs page
  • examples page (steal intercooler)
  • attributes page
  • events page
  • headers page

Unsupported Intercooler Features

• local actions
• all request parameters
• all response headers except X-*-Trigger
• dependencies
• macros

RESOURCES

• http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
• http://intercoolerjs.org/docs.html
• http://intercoolerjs.org/reference.html
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/WeakMap