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If you like templates and/or mixed-static/server generated HTML, then you might like HTMX.

It can get unwieldy if the app requires complex state management. While you can (somehwat hackishly) return JSON, its not really what its for.

Its kind of a throwback to the days of PHP, except without the page refreshes.

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I still use Twig templates for a couple of my simple marketing websites, backed by about 100 lines of PHP to make it work. Simple enough that my non-programmer friend can edit it, powerful enough that... well it's not that powerful but it can do templates, which is all I want out of it. And I can still fall back to PHP if I do need to sprinkle some server-side magic in it. Stable, no maintenance, just keeps working and working, over a decade later.

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