jQuery for was great and all, but Alpine.js simplifies tasks like data binding and DOM manipulation, providing using a more declarative and clear structure, making it ideal for smaller projects.

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Alpine.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework that simplifies adding interactivity to web pages, similar to jQuery but with a smaller footprint. It allows for easy data binding, event handling, and DOM manipulation through straightforward syntax. This guide walks you through setting up Alpine.js, defining and displaying variables, utilizing conditional rendering, handling events, and more, making it a go-to tool for modern web development.

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I think that you could couple alpine with htmx to get its full potential

Alpine has all the issue of jQuery. Maybe HTMX is better. Atomic CSS solve plenty of issue and this is personal test with different option to style. JS should use composition (Vue, Native Web Components and part of React) over integration (Alpine, jQuery, Angular). There is one issue in integration - don’t handle complexity in clean manner of DDD approach

AlpineJS has become a standard in Django apps for example, which means a really nice adoption curve. It’s not the case for AlpineAJAX though, people seems to prefer HTMX nowadays