HTMX Alternatives

Laravel Livewire is a free and open-source, full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple. The framework allows you to build modern web applications faster, without leaving the comfort of Laravel. In a world where building modern web applications has become significantly more complex over time, Laravel Livewire can facilitate some of the functionallity brough about by frameworks like Angular, React, Vue and Svelte, without having to write JavaScript.

Phoenix LiveView enables rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML. LiveView is free and open-source tool built for the Elixir framework Phoenix. It allows you to use a declarative model to render HTML on the server over WebSockets with optional LongPolling fallback. It also comes with templating and change tracking, live form validation with upload support, rich integration API with the client with phx-click, phx-focus, phx-blur, phx-submit, and a phx-hook for the cases where you have to write JavaScript.

Hotwire or HTML Over The Wire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. Hotwire is a newly released project from the guys at Basecamp, and the Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. The project aims to simplify the process of building web-based apps as a small team or solo developer.  The concept is however not new, it dates back years, and we have seen implementations being done before. Laravel Livewire, Phoenix Liveview and HTMX is similar implementations of the concept or serverside render blocks of HTML dynamically.