Note that for this example you can get the same behavior (assuming the endpoint hit isn't using using SSE, which IMO Datastar over emphasizes) in HTMX via a com

Note that for this example you can get the same behavior (assuming the endpoint hit isn't using using SSE, which IMO Datastar over emphasizes) in HTMX via a combination of formatting your response body correctly and the response headers. It isn't the way things are typically done in HTMX for Locality of Behavior reasons, not because it's impossible.