I'm a big fan of returning html instead of json when possible and I've been htmx curious for a bit.
With all the examples people keep using, I assumed it would be way smaller. 16kb minified is a lot.
Looking at the docs just now the core api seems reasonable, but it a lot larger than I'd assumed.
Look into DataStar and Alpine Ajax then, they're much smaller and more targeted.
our minimalist version of htmx is fixi.js:
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi
1181kb brotli'd (no minification)
I think you mean 1181b, not kb
whooops
> 16kb minified is a lot
I'd bet that almost any site which isn't intentionally bare bones will have a lot more than 16KB of JS.
Read DATAOS.software for an in depth analysis of bundle sizes and impact on performance.
It's much smaller than the final bundle size that most sites will end up loading.