With the growing popularity and renewed interest in HTML-first programming techniques, represented by tools like htmx, Unpoly, Turbo, and many others, it would be easy to assume the happy path forward for this revised take on “AJAX” is simply to reach for one of those popular tools. But like we keep asking on The Spicy Web…why not go vanilla? 🍦
With ready access to browser-native APIs for submitting forms, fetching & parsing HTML, and performing custom behaviors via custom elements (not to mention site-wide enhancements like View Transitions and Navigation API on the horizon), the surface area is rapidly vanishing for why you’d need a third-party dependency for common tasks. Let’s brainstorm together and discuss how this might work!
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