The Hypermedia Mental Model

Explain the difference between client-rendered SPAs and hypermedia-driven applications in terms of state location, data transfer format, and rendering responsibility.

Explain, with a concrete HTML example, how HTMX extends HTML to satisfy the HATEOAS principle by letting any element issue requests and swap responses.

Contrast React's virtual DOM diffing with HTMX's HTML-over-the-wire swap model.

Identify which categories of UI features in a React CRUD app map cleanly to HTMX and which require supplementary client-side scripting.

List the trade-offs (bundle size, SEO, complexity, latency) of replacing React with HTMX for a CRUD application.