Andrew Welch teaches us about the HOWL stack. It's "Hypermedia on Whatever You'd Like" -- you provide the backend, and choose a HOWL stack front-end like htmx or Datastar. This in-depth presentation will get you familiar with HOWL stack, so the next time it comes in a happy hour, you won't want to excuse yourself and go howl at the moon.
The HOWL stack, which stands for Hypermedia On Whatever You’d Like, is an approach to web development where the backend renders and returns HTML “over the wire”, and the frontend stitches this new HTML into the DOM. This approach allows developers to use whatever backend they prefer. It was coined by Carson Gross, the author of htmx. The HOWL stack is also referred to as “HTML over the wire”.
Examples of technologies that embody the HOWL stack or the “HTML over the wire” approach include htmx, Laravel LiveWire, Phoenix LiveView, HotWire, Unpoly, and Datastar.
Watch Andrew’s presentation to learn more about the HOWL stack!