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### Hypermedia and REST
* [HATEOAS](@/essays/hateoas.md)
* [How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?](@/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposite-of-rest.md)
* [Two Approaches To Decoupling](@/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling.md)
* [Hypermedia APIs vs. Data APIs](@/essays/hypermedia-apis-vs-data-apis.md)
* [Splitting Your Data & Application APIs: Going Further](@/essays/splitting-your-apis.md)
* [Hypermedia Clients](@/essays/hypermedia-clients.md)
* [HATEOAS Is For Humans](https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html)
* [Rescuing REST From the API Winter](https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html)
* [Taking HTML Seriously](https://intercoolerjs.org/2020/01/14/taking-html-seriously)
* [REST Copypasta](@/essays/rest-copypasta.md)
* [The #ViewSource Affordance](@/essays/right-click-view-source.md)
* [Hypermedia Controls: Feral to Formal (ACM HT'24)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3648188.3675127)

### Why Hypermedia? Why Multi-Page Applications?
* [Hypermedia On Whatever you'd Like (HOWL)](@/essays/hypermedia-on-whatever-youd-like.md)
* [A Response To "Have SPAs Ruined The Web"](@/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md)
* [When To Use Hypermedia?](@/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia.md)
* [The API Churn/Security Trade-off](https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.html)
* [Does Hypermedia Scale?](@/essays/does-hypermedia-scale.md)
* [SPA Alternative](@/essays/spa-alternative.md)

### Real World htmx Experiences
* [A Real World React to htmx Port](@/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port.md)
* [Another Real World React to htmx Port](@/essays/another-real-world-react-to-htmx-port.md)
* [Next.js to htmx — A Real World Example](@/essays/a-real-world-nextjs-to-htmx-port.md)
* [You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths](@/essays/you-cant.md)

### On The Other Hand...
* [htmx sucks](@/essays/htmx-sucks.md)
* [Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx](@/essays/why-gumroad-didnt-choose-htmx.md)
* [A Modest Critique of htmx](https://chrisdone.com/posts/htmx-critique/) [[Response]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41782080)

### Building Hypermedia Applications
* [Hypermedia-Driven Applications (HDAs)](@/essays/hypermedia-driven-applications.md)
* [Web Security Basics (with htmx)](@/essays/web-security-basics-with-htmx.md)
* [Hypermedia Friendly Scripting](@/essays/hypermedia-friendly-scripting.md)
* [10 Tips For Building SSR/HDA applications](@/essays/10-tips-for-SSR-HDA-apps.md)
* [Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation](@/essays/why-tend-not-to-use-content-negotiation.md)
* [Template Fragments](@/essays/template-fragments.md)
* [Web Components Work Great with htmx](@/essays/webcomponents-work-great.md)
* [View Transitions](@/essays/view-transitions.md)
* [Model/View/Controller](@/essays/mvc.md)
* [Is Rendering JSON More Efficient Than Rendering HTML?](https://github.com/1cg/html-json-speed-comparison)
* [Is JSON Smaller Than HTML?](https://github.com/1cg/html-json-size-comparison)

### Complexity Very, Very Bad
* [The Grug Brained Developer](https://grugbrain.dev)
* [Codin' Dirty](@/essays/codin-dirty.md)
* [Locality of Behavior (LoB)](@/essays/locality-of-behaviour.md)
* [Complexity Budget](@/essays/complexity-budget.md)
* [Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step](@/essays/no-build-step.md)
* [Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?](@/essays/is-htmx-another-javascript-framework.md)
* [htmx Implementation Deep Dive (Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=javGxN-h9VQ)
* [Prefer If Statements to Polymorphism, etc.](@/essays/prefer-if-statements.md)

### Hypermedia History

* [A File Structure For The Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate (Ted Nelson, 1965)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800197.806036)
* [The Mother Of All Demos (Doug Englebart, 1968)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI)
* [The First Web Page (1991)](http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html)
* [Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (Roy Fielding, 2000)](https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm)
* [State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues and Applications (2006)](https://paul.luon.net/hypermedia/index.html) [[archive]](https://web.archive.org/web/20240428215142/https://paul.luon.net/hypermedia/index.html)
* [Interview: Henning Koch, Creator of Unpoly](@/essays/interviews/henning_koch.md)

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