The initial motivation for intercooler.js (which the author forked) was performance. I was working on a large bulk table update and building the table dynamically in javascript. The performance was terrible (this was back in 2012, no idea what it would be like today).
I realized that I could just deliver and slam HTML into the DOM and that the browser engine, written in C, was very fast at rendering it.
That turned into a pretty big javascript function, which then turned into intercooler, which then turned into htmx:
I realized that I could just deliver and slam HTML into the DOM and that the browser engine, written in C, was very fast at rendering it.
That turned into a pretty big javascript function, which then turned into intercooler, which then turned into htmx:
https://htmx.org