[karmarepellent]

It makes me question what we are doing too. I'm using HTMX extensively at work, but I never use it to only update local state. A few lines of Javscript on the client will do that.

However I think it's a powerful solution to updating the DOM when state changes on the backend and a roundtrip is required anyway. For that matter the examples on the official project site are better to understand proper use cases for HTMX [0].

Personally I use Active Search and Edit/Delete Row a lot. While Active Search does not change state in the backend, I found it's still a valid use case for HTMX when searching large data sets, since the backend is (in my case) just way faster to search through a large data set.

It all comes down to your ability as a developer to find the proper solution to the problem at hand. A counter does not need HTMX.

[0] https://htmx.org/examples/