[thraxil]

> If I had to use HTMX for work, then I would've guaranteed used it wrong.

As someone who's been doing web dev since the 90's and is currently leading a project that's built with HTMX and having onboarded a few younger/junior "react devs", you're not wrong. What I've seen is that there's a whole generation now who just don't know how to do things in a different way than by building a SPA. The difficulty onboarding those devs is always in getting them to unlearn the patterns that React/Angular/etc. have ingrained in them. I've reviewed PRs that were a mess of complicated HTMX attributes, backend logic switching on headers, etc. and pointed out that all of it could be replaced by just, like, using a plain old HTML form submit or `<a href="..."`. I wish I were kidding. They almost always start out massively overusing HTMX out of a fear of triggering the dreaded full page reload. But in a non-SPA world, with a fast backend, full page reloads take milliseconds because there aren't MBs of JS to download and execute and a bunch of client-side state to reconstruct.

> It's also harder to find HTMX dev's when there's so much React devs

For someone who is familiar with basic web technology (like the 20 year old version with HTTTP/HTML and minimal JS/CSS), it only takes 15 minutes or so to learn HTMX (then maybe a few days of building where you pull up the docs occasionally to remember the names of the attributes). The idea of someone calling themselves an "HTMX dev" the same way we have "React devs" is ridiculous.