HTMX in Drupal Core: The Ajax API Replacement That Is Long Overdue
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For over a decade, Drupal developers have relied on Drupal.ajax — a powerful but heavy abstraction layer over jQuery — to handle dynamic interactions. With jQuery's slow sunset and the rise of "HTML-over-the-wire" paradigms, the HTMX in Drupal Core initiative is the most sensible thing to happen to Drupal's frontend in years.
I built a proof-of-concept module to test what this migration actually looks like in practice.