What is HAX
Bryan Ollendyke, et al.,
Jun 06, 2023
I saw this at the Reclaim Open conference (online) today, and while I thought it was a good idea, the presentation and documentation were almost impenetrable. As nearly as I can judge, HAX is a system for authoring web components and inserting them into NPM, Drupal and WordPress websites (among others). What are web components? "Web components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps." How do we use them? "Using a custom element is as simple as importing it, and using the new tags in an HTML document." Ack... they said 'simple'. Run away, run away. Seriously, the trick is in importing them. You create some Javascript code (that's what HAX does) that produces some HTML code, and then it just works in a browser. What makes HAX different (again, as nearly as I can tell) is that it integrates these into various content management systems. Anyhow, this isn't the presentation from the conference but a more useful presentation explaining how to install it on Reclaim Cloud.
Today: 6 Total: 91 [Direct link] [Share]
