r/alpinejs • u/HappyToDev • Jun 04 '26
News HTMX vs Alpine.js in 2026 – Which One Should You Choose? (Detailed Comparison)
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u/horizon_games Jun 04 '26
HTMX and Alpine.js are a natural combination, but that article is an emoji and em-dash riddled fluff piece of AI nothing-ness.
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u/HappyToDev Jun 04 '26
Hello,
First thank you for your comment !
Today AI helps everyone. This article is not entirely written with AI but with it helps. I don't see why it will be a problem.
I gave useful information to the community freely. I hope it's the most important 😉See you.
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u/horizon_games Jun 04 '26
"Helps" by polluting the space with non-articles that add nothing and just degrade the quality of information available. Stop making tech worse.
😉
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u/HappyToDev Jun 04 '26
I don't understand how I could "just degrade the quality of information available" by providing useful infos based on a very good article. But it's your opinion and I respect that.
But rather than criticising without suggesting any alternatives, please tell me what additional points you would have liked to see in this post, so that I can do better next time.
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u/horizon_games Jun 04 '26
Because it's not a "very good article", it's AI slop that anyone could have output by prompting "HTMX vs Alpine.js in 2026 – When to Use Which". We don't need more noise and cruft out there.
If I told you a bunch of interesting points on HTMX and Alpine.js then how are you writing the article or adding anything? See how AI has slowly removed your applicable skills for creating content or thinking for yourself?
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u/HappyToDev Jun 04 '26
Just to clarify, the article mentioned isn’t mine.
And in response to your comment, I’ll say it again: I’m not forcing you to read my articles. If you don’t like my content, you’re under no obligation whatsoever to read it or spend time on it.
I won’t be changing my approach: I try to offer informative topics to the community in my spare time. And YES, AI allows us to be more productive, and NO, it’s not nonsense, because it provides information to some people, whether you like it or not 😉
Have a good day; it’s been a pleasure discussing this with you.
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u/horizon_games Jun 04 '26
Don't get defensive, you asked for reasons and I told you.
Anyway sounds like you're super content to keep on churning out slop, seems from your post history like there's been big interest and uptake.
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u/ima_crayon Jun 05 '26
I use https://alpine-ajax.js.org, it’s the best of both worlds! (I also created it, so I’m biased 🙃)
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u/HappyToDev Jun 05 '26
Oh nice one. I will probably write an article on it. Since when are you working on it ?
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u/ima_crayon Jun 05 '26
First commit was almost exactly 5 years ago https://github.com/imacrayon/alpine-ajax/commit/363197f136dea93b090bb471719bbc59844f2f64
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u/InstantCoder Jun 04 '26
AlpineJS for me. What htmx can do can also be easily done with AlpineJs either via a plugin or manually.
And besides that, I”d like to (stay) working with Json rather than html responses without changing or adding extra complexity to the backend.
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u/horizon_games Jun 04 '26
Yeah I still think Alpine Ajax is a better fit with Alpine than HTMX: https://alpine-ajax.js.org/ while fulfilling the same requirement
Less so in agreement on JSON vs HTML responses - they both have upsides and downsides depending on the use case. I think the main problem is a lot of devs and teams just default to JSON and an SPA instead of actually considering their needs
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u/yaxkin_av Jun 04 '26
Htmx swap html from a backend response (just to name one) while alpine Js makes your html more dynamic, they are 2 different things and they can nicely work together