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Honestly I'm pretty happy with just the stack: server html jsx templates + htmx boost + css view transitions. It's simple, easy to troubleshoot, fast to build, and crucially provides most of the important benefits of a SPA (seamless updates) without hardly any frontend JS.

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Wanted to give htmx a try. I have a form, in which multiple text editors can be added. Apparently here we need an endpoint to deliver the extra field and I can tell htmx where to append it, so some extra work but okay.

Then the user should be able to click a button and the additional text editor should disappear.

> Oh for that you need this custom language called hyperscript, it's so easy to get st...

no.

You don't need hyperscript, you can just do it with Javascript.

If I'm writing JS for something as simple as removing an element, then I can keep writing. Alpine.js would make more sense in that case.

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