@gotcha picking up on this, I haven't tried it yet so take this with a huge heaping of salt...
There is something called the "client-side-template extension" for htmx - </> htmx ~ The client-side-templates Extension, this allows you to manipulate incoming JSON into html. Bascially, this approach would allow you to use the Plone REST API with htmx...
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