About regular links and hx-boost. This hx-boost exists only to compete with SPA. Building good websites requires dropping the sugar high of hx-boost and saying “here’s how to use a cache header.”

Use cache headers: cache-control if possible and etag for dynamic resources. "If I don’t even want to include a version number—maybe for a file like stylesheet.css—I can use a URL query."

Leverage HTML as much as possible: it only gets better.

When to use HTMX then? "Until HTML has an API to keep live content persistent across page navigations, some SPA functionality is required to make that happen."

SPAs are an advanced tool that the industry deceptively marketed as a simple one. Aram is a highly experienced web developer who’s using hx-boost to push the boundaries of what’s possible with page navigations; Most people, who just want to add a little interactivity to their webpage, should stick with the simplest tool available: a regular link.