[throwaway38375]

As many others have said, I think HTMX was around many years ago, just in different forms.

There were many jQuery plugins that did most of what HTMX did. But maybe it has risen in popularity recently because of JavaScript fatigue?

Unrelated, but my preference when working with JavaScript:

1. None

2. jQuery

3. Alpine

4. Vue

As you can see, I have JavaScript fatigue, and prefer the lighter touch frameworks.