But you can already do that. I was doing it in the 90s, Ruby on Rails supports it, etc. Just send the HTML if you want to and call `el.innerHTML = response.body`.
The false dichotomy here is that it's either htmx or React. Why not... neither?
The false dichotomy here is that it's either htmx or React. Why not... neither?
but it does support history, collecting parameters from the DOM, an extensive event model and extension model, targeting other elements, listening for events in sophisticated ways, coordinating multiple elements that are making requests, etc.
so there's some additional stuff in there that makes building a proper hypermedia-driven application easier
People throw bs under their feet and then learn how to avoid stepping into it too much. It’s insane. I think that htmx, despite clearly being a breath of fresh air for them, is in the same category: it does all you that could just_do already, but looks nice.