I got tired of shipping megabytes of JS just to render small bits of dynamic UI.

So I built HMPL.js — a tiny (~24 KB) server-oriented templating language for JavaScript. It lets you send UI directly from the server with a simple block syntax, no framework overhead. Example:

<div> <button id="btn">Click!</button> Clicks: {{#request src="/api/clicks" after="click:#btn"}}{{/request}} </div>

It’s fetch-based (not XHR), supports events/forms, integrates JSON5, and sanitizes HTML via DOMPurify. Think of it as a smaller alternative to HTMX/Alpine.js when you just want server-driven interactivity with minimal JS.

Docs: hmpl-lang.dev

Would love feedback on where this could actually replace heavier setups ^ ^