[robertoandred]

> When you move from React to HTMX, you trade complex state management for server-side simplicity.

Managing the same state will have the same complexity on the server as it does on the client. HTMX's smugness is a huge turnoff.

[recursivedoubts]

depends how much state is accidental vs essential:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/

while I certainly try to be funny online, I hope I'm reasonably even handed about the tradeoffs associated with the hypermedia approach:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/

https://htmx.org/essays/#on-the-other-hand