Alpine.js now has a lightweight [morph plugin](https://alpinejs.dev/plugins/morph) and this extension allows you to use it as the swapping mechanism in htmx which is necessary to retain Alpine state when you have entire Alpine components swapped by htmx.
npm install htmx-ext-alpine-morphAlpine.js now has a lightweight morph plugin and this extension allows you to use it as the swapping mechanism in htmx which is necessary to retain Alpine state when you have entire Alpine components swapped by htmx.
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In the above example, all the Alpine x-data states (count, replaced, and message) are preserved even the entire Alpine component is swapped.
NOTE:
response from the example above should return actual element that is being replaced (this is