I haven't used htmx but it looks nothing like pyreact. htmx is about adding attributes to html, so again, you are still writing html.

Htmx is not only about adding attributes to HTML :) check how responses to requests are expected to contain full or partial HTML instead of, say, json.

yeah I get that, but the html that is returned from the server doesn't have to be generated with things like html.div(html.p('hello this is a p tag inside a div'))

you could still have your html in a template file and parse and return the contents of that.