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Comment on: Let's make the worst Htmx
Our UI is highly interactive: think 3d visualizations with toggle-able overlays, various display settings, searchable lists, drawing tools etc.We made a lot of progress with htmx, but eventually hit a complexity wall where we were spending more time fighting the tool than solving the business need. Note, I'm not blaming htmx here, the documentation is clear about its strengths and limitations, and the hypermedia approach is still fundamentally right. But even with alpinejs in the mix, we just weren't able to achieve the smooth developer experience we were looking for.So we tried datastar, and