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I appreciate the suggestion. Not sure I am a fan of this implementation though. It looks near identical to the HTMX JS API that is already backed into HTMX. Most of the annoyances I dealt with were around conditional logic based on validation.

After enough of the HTMX JS API, I figured, "What is HTMX even buying me at this point?" Even if plain JS is more verbose, that verbosity comes with far less opinions and constraints.


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recursivedoubts05/05/2025

if you are using the htmx javascript API extensively rather than the attributes, you are not using htmx as it was intended