[josefdlange]

HTMX is a nice utility for a fairly basic set of common JS tasks ("load this content and put it there", "submit this form and show its response there") and I think it's a useful tool to have on a project. Its footprint is small so there's little concern for adding bulk to your bundle.

I don't think it solves every problem efficiently, but as SahAssar mentions (with some thoughtful criticism) below, as your needs become more complex, the framework provides at least some kind of escape hatch into more traditional programming, admittedly strange though it looks embedded as a DSL that gets put into an HTML attribute.

On the other hand there are some cool behaviors that I've leveraged to great success -- in the responses you return from your backend that HTMX is interpreting, you can encode data into headers that HTMX will turn around and trigger as DOM events. Pretty neat way to interact between your front and back-end both on a DOM and a JS runtime level.