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I am willing to be convinced about HTMx mainly because the whole internet is blathering about how great it is. I have just started looking into it.

BUT - the suggestion seems to be that it makes easy things easy and after that we'll you need to reach for more powerful tools.

So why would I not just use the power tools for everything and reduce the number of technologies in use therefore making the whole thing less complex.

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I think the argument in addition to "makes easy things easy" is "and most things are much easier than you think."

HTMX and the hypermedia philosophy asks you to reconsider whether you need the complexity ever, even at scale.

Because you don't need to deploy those more complex technologies until you scale and have the money to hire an expert.

It's Like building your SaaS to run with a single server and database at the start. When you get a million users and the old infra won't scale you can move it to kubernetes and DB clusters. But no point doing that till you need it.

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