Ok, so it does not have this ability.

Code duplication and increased maintenance effort are the issues I'm attempting to resolve. If you have interactivity, you must generate the same HTML on the client side that is available on the server side. If changes are needed, you must make them in both the front end client side js and the htl. ...

Yes, the Sling model does that, and I have already implemented it as stated in the question. However, because this component is a search result, it has interactive elements. If the search term changes, a new response will need to be shared, but there is a way to handle templating on the Js side by g...

I'm not sure if AEM can return HTML directly, like you could with Springboot and Thymeleaf, but I'd like to try using the HTMX return HTML philosophy with the AEM components to see if it speeds up the performance of certain components. It would be great to have a search result component that runs on...