Comment by recursivedoubts

yes: htmx grew out of intercooler.js, which was based on jquery and inspired by the jQuery.load() method:

https://api.jquery.com/load/

which I found while doing some performance work at one point. intercooler.js started as a custom function that hooked .load() in based on custom attributes (a trick I learned from angular 1.x)

deeply respect and love jquery