[chrsjxn]

There's some difference, but I'm still not convinced. An htmx app is still using JS to manipulate the state of the DOM based on the results of API calls. You could build an app with web-components that do the same local modifications using JSON payloads.

There are definitely advantages to using a multi-page application architecture, which htmx is going to get by default.

But I really don't see a big difference between using JS to replace DOM fragments with server generated HTML, compared to using JS to replace DOM fragments with client generated HTML.