If I am not mistaken, last time I looked at it I think I saw that HTMX has the ability to declare handlers. So that if you instead want to provide Json, one of

If I am not mistaken, last time I looked at it I think I saw that HTMX has the ability to declare handlers. So that if you instead want to provide Json, one of those handlers could transform/handle it client-side. I think, haven't tried it myself.