One major downside to HTMX is that as soon as there is any state you have to keep track of, you're teleported back to the late 90s or early 2000s where you have to keep track of all your state in hidden form fields, and you're extremely constrained in how you update pages.
IMO, it's annoying enough that it's probably not worth it unless you're doing something trivial. If you want to render html on the server you can still do that, but in many cases it is easier to just use custom javascript and maybe even receive the rendered html as json to simply updating pages rather than use htmx.
IMO, it's annoying enough that it's probably not worth it unless you're doing something trivial. If you want to render html on the server you can still do that, but in many cases it is easier to just use custom javascript and maybe even receive the rendered html as json to simply updating pages rather than use htmx.