Comment by davexunit

I like the basic idea of htmx: respond to user input by making server requests that return new html for a subset of the page. However, I think there's a pretty significant language design problem and htmx's solution is language proliferation. There is a very low "expressivity ceiling" for what can be encoded into html attributes. The hx-trigger attribute defines a new, very limited domain specific programming language for expressing side-effects with few means of combination or abstraction. For anything slightly complicated, hyperscript seems to be the favored solution which is yet another new language. All of this caused by trying to shove logic into attribute strings.