Hypermedia is what to web apps what XML is to programming languages. We have tried HTMX as a concept many times over, there is nothing new here, and like everything declarative, sooner or later it will fall short and you're going to reach for escape hatches and what not.

And the features specified in that project is nice to have, in the same way that it is nice that we have Date Pickers or other advanced input features, but it is never going to replace React-like frameworks.

Again, the reason we have finally stabilised on JSX is because you can't really "Decelerate" away HTML or sophisticated data and event management, Google really really tried that with Angular 1.0, and we know it doesn't scale.

I have been writing frontends since early 2000. So I have seen it all, from activex being shinny to jquery, mootools, backbonejs, angular 1.0, php, Java Spring, Go. I looked into htmx and it is very much a second attempt at angular 1.0, which I did use for some good half decade as that was the best option at the time, but sooner or later, you get sick of stuffing "little codelets" inside attributes all over the place, which is exactly what htmx does.

If you want to understand what htmx is going to look like at scale, look at angular 1.0 projects.

However for some really complex mini apps, that's another story. But for the rest of those CRUD pages, you can go simple server side rendered.