Comment by mikedelago

I've shipped multiple projects running HTMX, and I generally like it.

Grain of salt too, I'm typically a "DevOps engineer", and I generally lean towards backend development. What I mean to say is that I don't know react and I don't want to.

My understanding of it is that HTMX is a library, whereas React is a framework. With a library, you need to figure out the structure yourself, and that sometimes makes things more difficult since it's another responsibility. This is likely where things fail for the large enterprise apps _not_ using a framework, since structuring the codebase for an enterprise application (and convincing your colleagues to like it) is genuinely difficult and there's no way around that.

> as some people have suggested - perhaps cynically - a simple lightweight replacement of jQuery?

I don't even see this as cynical, I think it's a relatively fair assessment. A key difference is that jQuery has it's own language to learn, whereas htmx is pretty much a few extra html tag attributes.

I'd recommend you just try HTMX out when you have an opportunity to write something small and full stack, you might like it a lot.