Why wouldn't Alpine.js and HTMX be modern javascript? They're both written with modern javascript.
React was created in 2013, Alpine in 2020, HTMX 2020. React is the elder of the bunch. React is the bloated tool nowadays.
React was created in 2013, Alpine in 2020, HTMX 2020. React is the elder of the bunch. React is the bloated tool nowadays.
Alpine and HTMX are entirely different architectural approach to script webpages, as compared to React/Vue/Svelte/Elm/... approach to build SPA webapps. And the latter approach was very frequently called "modern JavaScript" (and that's why I think it's more of a buzzword now, and less of an actually meaningful term).
I'm also confident that recursivedoubts wouldn't like you calling his library not modern. That's just insulting.
In 2015 we were doing
$('[data-widget="colorpicker"]').each(() => ReactDOM.render(<ColorPicker />));
Basically what HTMX is trying to do but with jQuery + React. No SPA. Just static pages with dynamic elements.