>The way I have been using it is to partially update my DOM based on some user interaction (either a POST, PUT, DELETE), by returning html. This makes updates html -> html vs json -> frontend framework -> html.

oh this clicked. Now i get what htmx is doing. its basically doing a react-ish way of UI changes without a full page reload (which thymeleaf would have done).

so what happens if i click something that needs to go to another "page"? do you "swap" the html out with the html of the other page ? or do you trigger a full page reload. For SEO reasons, im kinda putting the requirement that every interaction must have a unique url