htmx can work well for a reasonably large class of web applications. not all, and certainly not all UI patterns, but w/a bit of a mind shift to the hypermedia approach & a bit of accepting some limitations thereof you can simplify a lot of things pretty significantly.
if you try to shoehorn it in to the SPA mindset, triggering server requests on every interaction, yeah, it's not gonna be great
https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/
htmx can work well for a reasonably large class of web applications. not all, and certainly not all UI patterns, but w/a bit of a mind shift to the hypermedia approach & a bit of accepting some limitations thereof you can simplify a lot of things pretty significantly.
if you try to shoehorn it in to the SPA mindset, triggering server requests on every interaction, yeah, it's not gonna be great