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Look into DataStar and Alpine Ajax then, they're much smaller and more targeted.

our minimalist version of htmx is fixi.js:

1181kb brotli'd (no minification)

I think you mean 1181b, not kb

whooops

There's also htmz-be, nomini.js. Depending on your complexity needs.

> 16kb minified is a lot

I'd bet that almost any site which isn't intentionally bare bones will have a lot more than 16KB of JS.

Read DATAOS.software for an in depth analysis of bundle sizes and impact on performance.

It's much smaller than the final bundle size that most sites will end up loading.