I've recently adopted htmx from a Smalltalk backend and feels lovely. When coding to do that it felt like a library and not a framework and provides a lot of f

I've recently adopted htmx from a Smalltalk backend and feels lovely. When coding to do that it felt like a library and not a framework and provides a lot of flexibility in design options. And I agree that the backend should do as much HTML as possible but some times you still need to do things with js. Bu again the backend can send the html plus the bits of js specific for that UI screen or component and that's super flexible and efficient if you keep it properly factored and with nice separation of concerns. Here is a talk where I've made the case for a particular stack and demoed it last November in the Smalltalks 2023 conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gmvN0pimI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gmvN0pimI