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I've found that just using vanilla JavaScript for this handlers and simple state management also works fine. If you are using a template, each HTML page can have a little JS section at the bottom with glue logic, and it's super easy to read and maintain.

I needed Alpine mostly for small bits of interactivity in the page of an otherwise SSR app. Basically what I used jQuery for 20 years ago.

I think the reason htmx and alpine are both popular is that they both get added as html attributes. So you really feel like youre just writing things html a lot of the time.

> HTMX would work well with jQuery.

Note that HTMX is supposed to be Intercooler 2.0, which is itself using jQuery https://intercoolerjs.org/ .