This looks great! I love having the ability to bring existing React/JSX knowledge and be productive with VanJS, while also ditching the transpilation and build

This looks great! I love having the ability to bring existing React/JSX knowledge and be productive with VanJS, while also ditching the transpilation and build tool wildness that has afflicted the ecosystem. React and JSX were needed in 2013, but with the power and convenience packed into new ES standards and supported by modern browsers, React and JSX should be viewed as bloated polyfills at this point. It’s really heartening to see things trending back toward single script tags that help you avoid build tools, churn, and dependency hell. To that end, I’m leaning toward htmx for my own project, but what you’ve come up with looks really enticing as well.