Hypermedia Is Winning: HTMX 4.0 and Datastar for Developers Tired of the SPA Tax
2026 is the year hypermedia stopped being a contrarian take. HTMX 4.0 and the ~11 KB Datastar let you build reactive UIs by shipping HTML, not 300 KB of JavaScript, and they slot neatly into a Magento + Hyvä stack.