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Lib is EXTREMELY minimal. Only GET requests with anchor tags. That you can’t POST forms or send metadata make it mostly useless for anything but the most basic website.

I guess the creator will think about the minimal features to add in their remaining 50 LoC budget. (IMO a minimized KB target would be a better ceiling).

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I mean, you can just write some code to post data to an API.

It's not about the POSTing. Its how you handle the response. The paradigm of this library is that you replace segments of the page with the response, which it doesn't support for POST requests.

Isn't that what <form> is for?

Was. for, "modern" things (libs, framework, etc) intercept these bog standard bits with their "magic" rebuilding to maybe 70% of what already worked.

Refreshing the page to send an upvote isn’t peak UX.

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