[alethiophile]

Alpine is primarily designed to be reused via server templating. You use a single template per component to do the in-HTML side, using the server template's facilities to handle variations as necessary. Then you can factor out complex common behaviors into Javascript using Alpine.data.

It definitely does have a maximum size of project it's suitable for. In particular, it's thoroughly individual-component-based; changing anything outside the component requires tacking on non-native hacks, and doing a full interactive app with it would be a painful exercise. But for adding simple interactivity to a primarily server-rendered web page, I've found it to be quite useful.

[moritzwarhier]

Should have mentioned that I made a generic Blade component from it (it was a Laravel project)

Copying still happened, take that as you will - in this case that was the problem :) Might be my implementation was not generic enough, but tbh the colleague was not especially proficient at JS. We had a productive conversation about this, but this particular project ultimately was lost by my former employer. The reason was not this autocomplete component though :)