Why I Chose HTMX Over React for My SaaS (And What Happened)

The Setup I decided I was going to write a book. Wait. No. 5 books in a southern gothic meets urban fantasy series! How cool would that be? Even if no one else read it? So I came up with a character, then wished I had a character sheet like they have in D&D. I searched for writing tools and decided to use Scrivener. Now that was a steep learning curve, and it didn't really do what I wanted. It had ways to organize things, but the search was clunky and there wasn't really any way to "see" the big picture the way I wanted to. Where were the characters last? Were there any plot holes? Does this draft suck? I thought AutoCrit was going to be the answer to this problem, and it was "smarter" than Scrivener in a lot of ways, and not as smart in others. One of the biggest challenges with both platforms was cross-device access. So what does a developer-minded guy like me do when he wants to build a world, track all of his changes, and be able to work from any internet connected device? The Fail