Rendering hyperscript-style responses about htmx HOT 3 CLOSED

You'll want to check out the extension mechanism, currently in dev. You can view the docs here: https://dev.htmx.org/extensions/. Note that there's already an extension switch the DOM updates to morphdom (https://dev.htmx.org/official-extensions/#morphdom-swap). I would naively assume that preact could be used similarly.

For intercepting requests, you can add a listener to the beforeRequest event (https://dev.htmx.org/events/#beforeRequest.htmx), which could block requests where the answer is cached. I don't know if it's possible to insert that cached value as if it was the response, though.

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Thanks for the fast response. The second part is "way down the road". The first part, I suspect can go a long way scratching my itch with HTML fragments, so I will try the morphdom and learn about htmx.

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Hi Paul,

You are right that this is out of scope, but @rschroll is also right that this is exactly what the extension mechanism is intended to address. The morphdom extension mentioned shows how to implement a custom swap strategy:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/dev/src/ext/morphdom-swap.js

And the client-side-templating extension shows how to catch a JSON request and render it as HTML before htmx starts processing the content:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/dev/src/ext/client-side-templates.js

If you get into it and there isn't the right cut-point in the request life cycle to implement what you want we can take a look at the use case and determine if a new cut point makes sense.

Thanks for taking a look at htmx!

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