[unclebucknasty]

I'm admittedly out of touch with current React best practices, but "sprinkling react" isn't a phrase I'd have expected to hear based on my last contact with it. Sprinkling JavaScript or Alpine.js or HTMX, yes. But React seems to come with baggage, no?

[DrFalkyn]

Yeah, it seems to me if you're not buying into the entire app being based on React, including JSX with Router/Layout/etc. there's not much point to even using it library.

At that point, you can just write your own Javascript functions / classes for rendering, and handle your own state management

HTMX lends itself more to "sprinkling". Its basically just a very compact version of fetch(), combined with trigger logic (e.g. setTimeout(), onclick, etc.