Yes I don’t see the appeal of HTMX in most cases. Vuejs has less footguns than React, and LLMs can produce it decently well to at least get started and then refactor.

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mikestorrent an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The appeal is literally a "fuck you" to anyone that makes me have to run a build process for a web page, when I used to just be able to click reload and see the reality in front of me in seconds on a machine 1/500th the speed.

	▲	blovescoffee an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You can drop react into an html page with a script tag. You don't need a build step. The build step is only requisite if you'd like the full benefits of react, which personally I find worth it. Cached builds are quite fast. All build steps/compilers/etc. exist to add some devex upgrade on top of some lighter-weight thing that many devs find useful.

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llbbdd 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The appeal is that it's not React, aimed mostly st people who have a grievance against React for one ill-informed reason or another. In time it will either become React by another name or die out.

	▲	mikestorrent an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.