A modest critique of Htmx

Nostalgia for old operating systems and applications is misplaced. We don't need to return; their failures are the lesson learned.

Alpine.js, with its declarative templating, is more capable than Stimulus but can be used similarly, with JS in separate files and not inline in the HTML.

htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react