HTMX is a tiny library that lets developers specify parts of HTML as dynamic islands that can be swapped by new server-rendered HTML on interaction.

This approach is a declarative way to doing $.get("/url/", ".outlet") of the yore times. Interactivity may not be as amazing as what React.js offers, but:

• Its much smaller (15.4kb after gzip).
• Final JS is much smaller (we only need to cover things like dynamic timestamps, Bootstrap's JS for modals/dropdowns, quote and message editor).
• UI is interactive faster on page load.
• Much more UI can work without JS
• Single HTML location (Django's templates)
• Much easier to work with for Django devs
• Much easier to manipulate and extend with plugins
• Can be done incrementally (move page after page away from React.js)

Forum thread for discussion:

Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting HTMX for UI interactivity