Datastar
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The hypermedia framework.
Datastar is a lightweight framework for building everything from simple sites to real-time collaborative web applications.
About
- Using HTMX cut code size by about 70%, but brought sync issues between UI parts along with growing complexity in frontend state management
- After adopting Datastar, building real-time multi-user applications became possible with concise code and no WebSockets, and maintenance became easier
- Whereas HTMX spreads behavior logic across HTML attributes, Datastar improves logic consistency and maintainability through a server-driven update model
- The Datastar API has fewer attributes, and code readability and productivity felt higher
- Datastar makes heavy use of web-native technologies such as Server-Sent Events (SSE), Web Components, and CSS View Transitions, enabling real-time collaboration and a reusable component structure