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Kind of makes me wish there was a htmx-lite of sorts. Like an 80/20 solution at 20% of the size, which could be extended to the full blown package with extensions.

Have you thought about moving more features to extension, like was done with the web sockets feature?

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I've looked at the codebase and there isn't much I feel would do well as an extension. As I said upthread, most of the code is AJAX, input gathering, history support and then book-keeping/event stuff around that.

There will be a bunch of htmx-like libraries coming out though and I expect many of them to take different design perspectives. Two that I'm aware of are https://data-star.dev/ and https://ajaxial.unmodernweb.com/, both were created by people on the htmx discord. I know of at least two other minimalist rewrites htmx discord users have done, but they haven't published their stuff yet.

If you'd like to create your own, I do an overview of how htmx works here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=javGxN-h9VQ

I think a minimal, clean room, fetch() based implementation could be done in a weekend.

Love data-stax by Delaney.

https://github.com/delaneyj/datastar

https://data-star.dev/examples

The way SSE is done is pretty cool as well as the NATS server integration.

The 3D aspects with htmx looks talk fab too

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