I’ve done a couple of side gigs doing exactly that. I’m not really proficient in React, but I still had to do web development. For one project I used jQuery, and for the latest one I tried htmx — but it wasn’t quite enough, so I had to mix in some vanilla JS as well. Arguably, that’s not really a best-practice recommendation when working in a team, and I’d only consider it justifiable for smaller projects. Still, I got paid, so it worked out.
I'm a bit confused at the ways HTMX and Alpine AJAX differ and where they're the same. I know there are header difference, for example, and that HTMX may have some functionality Alpine is missing, etc.
For example, HTMX has websocket support, while it looks like Alpine doesn't. Alpine has Alpine AJAX, but also alpine-morph, etc.
I only saw one article specifically addressing combining the two, but also very little on server side transitioning from one to the other.
I wish there was an article on starting with HTMX and what Ajax looks like in p
