Folks, this is exactly what htmx (and Phoenix LiveView and Laravel Livewire and Rails Hotwire) solves. OP was almost there but couldn't quite articulate this niche. Which is OK, we have the benefit of hindsight now.
Try htmx. It will blow you away with its simplicity compared to (today's) React. My personal recommendation: try it with dream-html, a library I wrote for expressing HTML directly in the language: https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html (or some similar library).
Folks, this is exactly what htmx (and Phoenix LiveView and Laravel Livewire and Rails Hotwire) solves. OP was almost there but couldn't quite articulate this niche. Which is OK, we have the benefit of hindsight now.
Try htmx. It will blow you away with its simplicity compared to (today's) React. My personal recommendation: try it with dream-html, a library I wrote for expressing HTML directly in the language: https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html (or some similar library).