· javascript
A Look at Datastar
I have always been interested in frontend solutions for building web applications.
Even though I'm more of a backend programmer, I really dig all the different techniques people come up with for creating browser-based apps that are both reactive (reflecting remote state in real-time) and interactive (responding to user actions). Over the last few years, I've been looking at different frontend frameworks and libraries, to see how they work, and what I can learn from them.
I adore Svelte, which is really smart and efficient. Its sister framework SvelteKit inspired the file-based routing in my own web framework for Ruby, Syntropy.
I also really like the approach of the Phoenix framework to building reactive apps using LiveView, which is an amazing technology that builds on the solid concurrency foundation of Elixir/Erlang. Many people have tried to recreate the same functionality for other languages or frameworks, with varying degrees of success. Recently, Marco Roth came up with ReActionView, which promises to bring reactive views to Rails apps, building on his previous work on Herb, a set of tools that improve on the developer experience of writing ERB templates for Rails apps.
