After almost a decade of touting "javascript all the things", the industry pendulum is again swinging back towards backend-first web apps. Tech like Blazor, Hotwire and Phoenix Liveview have introduced the pattern of keeping state on the server and sending smal HTML snippets whenever it changes.

In this session we'll take a look at building web apps using vanilla Razor Pages and a tiny javascript framework called HTMX, which lets us build interactive apps without doing any clientside javascript.