> Calling datastar's pro features "necessary" is a bit disingenuous
I didn't. I said:
> * Datastar has a paid-for Pro edition, which is necesssary if you want certain behaviours. HTMX is completely free.
I don't need to spell out why this means something very different to what you think it means.
I'll happily concede on the other two quibbles.
Sorry, i can see how i misinterpreted the "necessary" part.
D* doesnt only use SSE. It can do normal http request-response as well. Though, SSE can also do 0, 1 or infinite responses too.
Calling datastar's pro features "necessary" is a bit disingenuous - they literally tell people not to buy it because those features, themselves, are not actually necessary. Theyre just bells and whistles, and some are actually a bad idea (in their own words).
Datastar is 11kb and that includes all of the htmx plugins you mentioned (sse, idiomorph) and much more (all of alpine js, essentially).