Carson Gross, Alex Petros January 01, 2025In The Beginning… htmx began life as intercooler.js, a library built around jQuery that added behavior based on HTML attributes. For developers who are not familiar with it, jQuery is a venerable JavaScript library that made writing cross-platform JavaScript a lot easier during a time when browser implementations were very inconsistent, and JavaScript didn’t have many of the convenient APIs and features that it does now. Today many web developers conside...