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DjangoCon 2022 | From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it's awesome!

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What it is

David Guillot describes how his team replaced a two-year-old React UI of their SaaS product with Django templates and htmx in a couple of months. The talk gives concrete indicators on code size, performance and team impact.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as a real-world case study of moving from React to htmx, especially in threads on boring web development and HTML over the wire.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “This recent talk from Djangocon "React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product" might be of interest”

    Talk on moving a SaaS from React to htmx.

    grose, 2022-11 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Where can one learn about boring web development?”

  2. “Check out this djangocon talk where a SaaS product moved from react to htmx.”

    SaaS product moving from React to htmx.

    dragonshed, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?”

  3. “in the video they specifically talk about faceted search and how they did it with htmx.”

    Covers faceted search implemented with htmx.

    dvtkrlbs, 2023-08 · Recommendation · in “Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator”

  4. “the author expressed being verry happy with switching to 'stack' you described”

    Author is very happy after switching to htmx stack.

    Xeamek, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “HTML First – Six principles for building simple, maintainable, web software”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: htmx, django, react, web development, html over the wire

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