I don't understand what you mean. Hotwire uses javascript internally just like htmx does and neither require you to write your own javascript. I'm not aware of

I don't understand what you mean. Hotwire uses javascript internally just like htmx does and neither require you to write your own javascript. I'm not aware of django including a similar library, so if you want to take this approach with django I think you need to use htmx, but my impression is that hotwire and htmx are fairly equivalent.