[merpnderp]

Isn’t this really just going back to the server side templating days and using jquery to load html snippets?

[andybak]

The problem was that on the whole people didn't use jQuery to "load html snippets" and the architecture of jQuery tended to push people towards client-side spaghetti.

htmx encourages you to put most of the logic on the server and to keep the client lean and clean.

[ForHackernews]

Yes, it's an implementation of the radical idea that we should deliver HTML (rather than a giant blob of JS) to clients purpose-built for rendering HTML.

See also https://hotwired.dev/

[mejutoco]

But without jquery, everything defined in html attributes, and hence the server responses can further define behaviour in their html attributes. Declarative, not procedural, if you want.

[lebean]

Yes it's that, but more. I enjoy the out-of-bound swaps and triggering hx events or specific targets of render via response headers.