This is a weak argument. The article is demoing a TODO app talking to localhost. Almost any library, framework, or language is the future if this is how we're judging the future.
> Working with HTMX has allowed me to leverage things I learned 15-20 years ago that still work, like my website.
Yes, a website is different than a webapp and has different requirements.
> Yes, a website is different than a webapp and has different requirements.
The piece missing here is that most people do not stop to think which they are building before they reach for a JS heavy SPA framework and start spinning up microservices in whatever AWS calls their Kube implimentation.