---
title: "Ease into htmx with htmx-get"
description: "I recently attended python web conf 2022 and after seeing some incredible presentations on it I am excited to give htmx a try."
date: 2022-03-25
published: false
tags:
- webdev
- webdev
- webdev
template: til
---
I recently attended
[python web conf 2022](https://2022.pythonwebconf.com/)
and after seeing some incredible presentations on it I am excited to
give [htmx](https://htmx.org/) a try.
## The base page
Start with some html boilerplate, pop in a script tag to add the
htmx.org script, and a button that says click me. I added just a tish
of style so that it does not sear your delicate developer your eyes.
```html
```
Save this as `index.html` and fire up a webserver and you will be
presented with this big beefcake of a button.
If you don't have a development server preference I reccomend opening
the terminal and running `python -m http.server 8000` then opening your
browser to `localhost:8000`
## The Partial
Now the page has a button that is ready to replace itself, notice the
`hx-swap="outerHTML">`, with the contents of /partial. To create a
static api of sorts we can simply host a partial page in a file at
`/partial/index.html` with the following contents.
```html
hello
```
## Tree
To make it a bit clearer here is what the file tree looks like after
setting this up.
```txt
~/git/htmx v3.9.7 (git)
❯ tree
.
├── clicked
│ └── index.html
└── index.html
```
## Demo
I added htmx to this page and setup a partial below, check out this
easter egg.
## Links
* [python web conf 2022](https://2022.pythonwebconf.com/)
* [htmx](https://htmx.org/)
* [big beefcake of a button](https://images.waylonwalker.com/htmx-get-til-click-me.png)
* [the final results](https://images.waylonwalker.com/htmx-get-til-hello.png)