Comment by _heimdall

I reach for HTMX when (a) its a project where I have the power to make that decision and (b) I need to render state that lives on the server.

My main issue with SPAs, and client rendering in general, has always been the attempt to client render state that is persisted elsewhere.

There are certain pieces of state that really do live on the client, and for that client rendering is great. A vast majority of cases involve state that is persisted somewhere on the server though, and in those cases its needlessly complex to ship both the state and an entire rendering engine to the browser.