[yawaramin]

Htmx functions fine with any standard HTTP server in basic cases: it’s just an HTTP request and response with an HTML fragment. For progressive enhancement cases you can follow a very simple strategy of checking the HX-Request header and rendering either a full page or a partial, and adding a Vary: HX-Request response header. There’s no material difference between this and the standard content negotiation we talked about. To the server this is the same logic with just different names.

Also I pointed out that HTML already has custom DSLs in many of its attributes, this is not some new thing that htmx invented.

Finally, it says directly on the htmx landing page that it uses attributes for its functionality, and directly shows examples of common ones. This is right on the landing page. You have to dig into the special syntaxes of the other frameworks I mentioned to understand the differences they introduce. So I firmly refute your claims of marketing bullshit and dishonesty :-)

Try re-examining your own biases, you are in strong reality-warping mode :-)