Best of HTMX — June 2025

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   10 Libraries for Django projects

   A curated list of 10 modern Python libraries that enhance Django development, including Python Dotenv for environment management, Django Ninja as an alternative to DRF, Pydantic for form validation, Python Social Auth for authentication, Pika for message queuing, HTMX for reactive frontends, Django Templates Partial and Django Cotton for better templating, Faker for test data generation, and Python Systemd for logging. The author emphasizes choosing more Pythonic libraries over traditional Django-specific solutions.

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   Collections·48w

   Building 'Architect': A Laravel and HTMX Integration Course

   A comprehensive guide to building an interactive novel outlining application called 'Architect' using Laravel and HTMX. The tutorial covers setting up a Laravel environment, creating CRUD operations, enhancing user interactions with HTMX attributes for dynamic content loading, and implementing Laravel Blade fragments for efficient partial content rendering. The approach emphasizes progressive enhancement, ensuring the application works with or without JavaScript while providing a modern interactive experience.

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   JetBrains·47w

   Ktor 3.2.0 Is Now Available

   Ktor 3.2.0 introduces significant new features including dependency injection module, HTMX integration, typed configuration deserialization, Unix domain socket support for CIO engine, and Gradle version catalog support. The release also adds suspend modules for asynchronous initialization and improved integration with existing DI frameworks like Koin. Notable improvements include automatic configuration file deserialization into data classes and enhanced HTML attribute handling for HTMX applications.

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