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Agree on the first point, I think using JS makes more sense when you need to update some client state, like a dropdown or even that edit example. But htmx makes a lot more sense when you need to render some data from a server. In a SPA, you receive JSON, only to transform it back into HTML to render, so why not skip that middle step?

You might find https://data-star.dev/ interesting, it takes some of the modern approaches (signals, etc) and mixes it with the efficiency of sending straight-up HTML, htmx style. It's very similar to using Alpine + htmx together.