developer experience

Earlier in my career I was working as a C# developer, and had read a lot about testing and testability from the Alt.Net crowd, a lose group of people with ideas outside of how Microsoft did things in C#. When I came to needing to write an API, the impossibility of testing in ASP.NET made me look elsewhere. ASP.NET made heavy usage of Annotations, where you add decorators to methods which at runtime are interpreted by a framework to add functionality, or configure how a function is used....

In one of my too many side projects, I am using htmx and go templates to render a somewhat complicated web UI. I much prefer using htmx for this kind of thing rather than react, as react brings in so much more additional complexity than I need or want. However, there is one thing I miss from the React ecosystem, and that is hot reload. Being able to save a file in my editor and see the changes instantly in a web browser is an amazing developer experience, and I want to recreate that for htmx....