diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ea8c4bf..3077a23 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /target
+src/htmx.min.js
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4574dac..6cda3c7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-targets 0.52.6",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "base64"
+version = "0.21.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9d297deb1925b89f2ccc13d7635fa0714f12c87adce1c75356b39ca9b7178567"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "base64"
 version = "0.22.1"
@@ -165,6 +171,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand",
  "rayon",
  "regex",
+ "reqwest",
  "ring",
  "rocket",
  "rocket_cors",
@@ -182,7 +189,7 @@ version = "0.16.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2b1866ecef4f2d06a0bb77880015fdf2b89e25a1c2e5addacb87e459c86dc67e"
 dependencies = [
- "base64",
+ "base64 0.22.1",
  "blowfish",
  "getrandom",
  "subtle",
@@ -195,6 +202,12 @@ version = "0.1.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "383d29d513d8764dcdc42ea295d979eb99c3c9f00607b3692cf68a431f7dca72"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bitflags"
+version = "1.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bef38d45163c2f1dde094a7dfd33ccf595c92905c8f8f4fdc18d06fb1037718a"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
 version = "2.6.0"
@@ -463,7 +476,7 @@ version = "0.4.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b035a542cf7abf01f2e3c4d5a7acbaebfefe120ae4efc7bde3df98186e4b8af7"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "proc-macro2",
  "proc-macro2-diagnostics",
  "quote",
@@ -945,6 +958,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "want",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hyper-tls"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d6183ddfa99b85da61a140bea0efc93fdf56ceaa041b37d553518030827f9905"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "hyper",
+ "native-tls",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-native-tls",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "iana-time-zone"
 version = "0.1.61"
@@ -1133,6 +1159,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "generic-array",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ipnet"
+version = "2.10.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ddc24109865250148c2e0f3d25d4f0f479571723792d3802153c60922a4fb708"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "is-terminal"
 version = "0.4.13"
@@ -1454,7 +1486,7 @@ version = "0.10.68"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6174bc48f102d208783c2c84bf931bb75927a617866870de8a4ea85597f871f5"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "cfg-if",
  "foreign-types",
  "libc",
@@ -1735,7 +1767,7 @@ version = "0.5.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "03a862b389f93e68874fbf580b9de08dd02facb9a788ebadaf4a3fd33cf58834"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1802,6 +1834,46 @@ version = "0.8.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2b15c43186be67a4fd63bee50d0303afffcef381492ebe2c5d87f324e1b8815c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "reqwest"
+version = "0.11.27"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "dd67538700a17451e7cba03ac727fb961abb7607553461627b97de0b89cf4a62"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.21.7",
+ "bytes",
+ "encoding_rs",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-util",
+ "h2",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "http-body",
+ "hyper",
+ "hyper-tls",
+ "ipnet",
+ "js-sys",
+ "log",
+ "mime",
+ "native-tls",
+ "once_cell",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "rustls-pemfile",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_urlencoded",
+ "sync_wrapper",
+ "system-configuration",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-native-tls",
+ "tower-service",
+ "url",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "wasm-bindgen-futures",
+ "web-sys",
+ "winreg",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ring"
 version = "0.16.20"
@@ -1948,13 +2020,22 @@ version = "0.38.42"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f93dc38ecbab2eb790ff964bb77fa94faf256fd3e73285fd7ba0903b76bedb85"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "errno",
  "libc",
  "linux-raw-sys",
  "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls-pemfile"
+version = "1.0.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1c74cae0a4cf6ccbbf5f359f08efdf8ee7e1dc532573bf0db71968cb56b1448c"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.21.7",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustversion"
 version = "1.0.18"
@@ -2003,7 +2084,7 @@ version = "2.11.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "897b2245f0b511c87893af39b033e5ca9cce68824c4d7e7630b5a1d339658d02"
 dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "core-foundation",
  "core-foundation-sys",
  "libc",
@@ -2293,8 +2374,8 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "64bb4714269afa44aef2755150a0fc19d756fb580a67db8885608cf02f47d06a"
 dependencies = [
  "atoi",
- "base64",
- "bitflags",
+ "base64 0.22.1",
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "byteorder",
  "bytes",
  "chrono",
@@ -2337,8 +2418,8 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6fa91a732d854c5d7726349bb4bb879bb9478993ceb764247660aee25f67c2f8"
 dependencies = [
  "atoi",
- "base64",
- "bitflags",
+ "base64 0.22.1",
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "byteorder",
  "chrono",
  "crc",
@@ -2447,6 +2528,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sync_wrapper"
+version = "0.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2047c6ded9c721764247e62cd3b03c09ffc529b2ba5b10ec482ae507a4a70160"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "synstructure"
 version = "0.13.1"
@@ -2458,6 +2545,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "system-configuration"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ba3a3adc5c275d719af8cb4272ea1c4a6d668a777f37e115f6d11ddbc1c8e0e7"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "core-foundation",
+ "system-configuration-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "system-configuration-sys"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a75fb188eb626b924683e3b95e3a48e63551fcfb51949de2f06a9d91dbee93c9"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tempfile"
 version = "3.14.0"
@@ -2595,6 +2703,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-native-tls"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bbae76ab933c85776efabc971569dd6119c580d8f5d448769dec1764bf796ef2"
+dependencies = [
+ "native-tls",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-stream"
 version = "0.1.17"
@@ -2920,6 +3038,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen-shared",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "wasm-bindgen-futures"
+version = "0.4.49"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "38176d9b44ea84e9184eff0bc34cc167ed044f816accfe5922e54d84cf48eca2"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "js-sys",
+ "once_cell",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "web-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wasm-bindgen-macro"
 version = "0.2.99"
@@ -3175,6 +3306,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winreg"
+version = "0.50.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "524e57b2c537c0f9b1e69f1965311ec12182b4122e45035b1508cd24d2adadb1"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "write16"
 version = "1.0.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2666f07..b627b77 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,5 +26,8 @@ data-encoding = "2.6.0"
 bcrypt = "0.16.0"
 dashmap = "6.1.0"
 
+[build-dependencies]
+reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["blocking"] }
+
 [features]
 cache = []
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5855af6..994c265 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,3 +27,19 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS user_session (
     FOREIGN KEY("user") REFERENCES users(username)
 );
 ```
+
+## HTMX
+Based has a route for serving HTMX at `based::htmx::htmx_script_route` which you can include in your rocket `routes!`. The HTMX script will be available at `/assets/htmx.min.js`.
+
+Additionally you can check if a requests originates from HTMX:
+
+```rs
+#[get("/")]
+pub async fn index(ctx: RequestContext) -> StringRespopnse {
+    if ctx.is_htmx {
+        ...
+    } else {
+        ...
+    }
+}
+```
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1dd6fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+use std::fs;
+use std::path::Path;
+
+fn main() {
+    let url = "https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@2.0.4/dist/htmx.min.js";
+    let dest_path = Path::new("src/htmx.min.js");
+
+    println!("Downloading htmx.min.js from {}", url);
+    let response = reqwest::blocking::get(url)
+        .expect("Failed to send HTTP request")
+        .error_for_status()
+        .expect("Received error response from server");
+
+    let content = response.bytes().expect("Failed to read response body");
+
+    fs::write(&dest_path, &content).expect("Failed to write htmx.min.js to destination");
+
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=build.rs");
+}
diff --git a/src/htmx.rs b/src/htmx.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c17189
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/htmx.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+use rocket::get;
+
+use crate::request::{StringResponse, respond_script};
+
+#[get("/assets/htmx.min.js")]
+pub fn htmx_script_route() -> StringResponse {
+    respond_script(include_str!("htmx.min.js"))
+}
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index a028ecb..00a0df5 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use tokio::sync::OnceCell;
 
 pub mod auth;
 pub mod format;
+pub mod htmx;
 pub mod page;
 pub mod request;
 pub mod result;
diff --git a/src/request/mod.rs b/src/request/mod.rs
index d322842..1ecab66 100644
--- a/src/request/mod.rs
+++ b/src/request/mod.rs
@@ -12,5 +12,83 @@ pub use context::RequestContext;
 /// HTTP response containing a string payload.
 pub type StringResponse = (Status, (ContentType, String));
 
+pub trait RespondString {
+    fn respond(self) -> StringResponse;
+}
+
+impl RespondString for String {
+    fn respond(self) -> StringResponse {
+        (Status::Ok, (ContentType::Text, self))
+    }
+}
+
 /// HTTP response containing raw binary data.
 pub type RawResponse = (Status, (ContentType, Vec<u8>));
+
+pub trait RespondRaw {
+    fn respond(self) -> RawResponse;
+}
+
+impl RespondRaw for Vec<u8> {
+    fn respond(self) -> RawResponse {
+        (Status::Ok, (ContentType::Binary, self))
+    }
+}
+
+impl RespondRaw for StringResponse {
+    fn respond(self) -> RawResponse {
+        (self.0, (self.1.0, self.1.1.into_bytes()))
+    }
+}
+
+/// Helper function to create a JSON HTTP response.
+///
+/// # Parameters
+/// - `json`: A reference to a `serde_json::Value` representing the JSON payload.
+///
+/// # Returns
+/// A `StringResponse` with status `200 OK`, content type `application/json`, and the JSON-encoded body.
+pub fn respond_json(json: &serde_json::Value) -> StringResponse {
+    (
+        Status::Ok,
+        (
+            ContentType::JSON,
+            serde_json::to_string(json).expect("Failed to serialize JSON"),
+        ),
+    )
+}
+
+/// Helper function to create an HTML HTTP response.
+///
+/// # Parameters
+/// - `html`: A string slice (`&str`) containing the HTML content.
+///
+/// # Returns
+/// A `StringResponse` with status `200 OK`, content type `text/html`, and the HTML content as the body.
+pub fn respond_html(html: &str) -> StringResponse {
+    (Status::Ok, (ContentType::HTML, html.to_string()))
+}
+
+/// Helper function to create an JS HTTP response.
+///
+/// # Parameters
+/// - `html`: A string slice (`&str`) containing the JS content.
+///
+/// # Returns
+/// A `StringResponse` with status `200 OK`, content type `text/javascript`, and the JS content as the body.
+pub fn respond_script(script: &str) -> StringResponse {
+    (Status::Ok, (ContentType::JavaScript, script.to_string()))
+}
+
+/// Creates a custom HTTP response with the specified status, content type, and body.
+///
+/// # Parameters
+/// - `status`: The HTTP status code to include in the response.
+/// - `content_type`: The content type of the response body (e.g., `ContentType::JSON` or `ContentType::HTML`).
+/// - `body`: The response body as a `Vec<u8>`.
+///
+/// # Returns
+/// A `RawResponse` containing the provided status, content type, and body.
+pub fn respond_with(status: Status, content_type: ContentType, body: Vec<u8>) -> RawResponse {
+    (status, (content_type, body))
+}