Everybody's arguing about whether Htmx can do this or that, or how it handles complex use case x, but Htmx can do 90% of what people need in an extremely simple and straight-forward way. That means it (or at least its approach) won't disappear.
A highly complex stock-trading application should absolutely not be using Htmx.
But a configuration page? A blog? Any basic app that doesn't require real-time updates? Htmx makes much more sense for those than React. And those simple needs are a much bigger part of the internet than the Hacker News crowd realizes or wants to admit.
If I could make one argument against SPA's it's not that they don't have their use, they obviously do, it's that we're using them for too much and too often. At some point we decided everything had to be an SPA and it was only a matter of time before people sobered up and realized things went too far.
A highly complex stock-trading application should absolutely not be using Htmx.
But a configuration page? A blog? Any basic app that doesn't require real-time updates? Htmx makes much more sense for those than React. And those simple needs are a much bigger part of the internet than the Hacker News crowd realizes or wants to admit.
If I could make one argument against SPA's it's not that they don't have their use, they obviously do, it's that we're using them for too much and too often. At some point we decided everything had to be an SPA and it was only a matter of time before people sobered up and realized things went too far.