Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
There is a kind of exciting movement in Web dev right now. Web devs are talking about "JavaScript Fatigue", "Framework Fatigue", the "Revival of Hypermedia" and "HTML Over The Wire". In a word: we're asking ourselves why we're building HTML in JavaScript. The figurehead for this movement is undoubtedly HTMX. It shows that much of what we do in JavaScript could instead be done declaratively, with HTML attributes. If browsers adopted these semantics natively, many websites - and even apps - would