Datastar – The hypermedia framework.

Rebuilding the fast UI for QuickBooks Online using Datastar, putting it through its paces, and leveraging web technologies to create a polished product, with special guest David Nolen. Datastar: https://data-star.dev/ Instabooks: https://instabooks.io/ Game of Life demo: https://example.andersmurphy.com/

Datastar Python SDK and building internal monitoring tools using Datastar as a non web developer, with Chase Sterling (gazpachoking). Datastar Python SDK: https://github.com/starfederation/datastar-python

Datastar 1.0 has finally shipped. We are done. Done like dinner. Go buy a mug at https://data-star.dev/shop

We discuss the pending approach of Datastar 1.0, some new plugins, internalising the Tao, and show how Stellar CSS works in practice. Pete’s Datastar video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbqyjFEQew904tnpc7dtc6VuyX7HikBfR Talk Python to Me podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFc74eFhKBY Wookash podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU9vSXUKGHw

In this LIVE online meetup, we had some incredible guest demos including @ndyg demoing http-nu, Zangster demoing Rocket, Adam Bobowski demoing Stario, and Delaney Gillilan demoing Stellar CSS. Datastar: https://data-star.dev/http-nu: https://http-nu.cross.stream/ Rocket: https://data-star.dev/reference/rocket Stario: https://stario.dev/ Also worth watching is David Yang’s ClojureConj conference ta...

Community building & moderation, boilerplate starter kits, unlearning SPA ways, and A-team jokes that don’t land, with Nick Zanghi (Zangster). Datastar Discord server: https://discord.gg/bnRNgZjgPh Northstar: https://github.com/zangster300/northstar Rocket: https://data-star.dev/reference/rocket The Tao of Datastar: https://data-star.dev/guide/the_tao_of_datastar

We launch Rocket in early alpha, and discuss how Web Components become much more interesting when used with Datastar. Rocket docs: https://data-star.dev/reference/rocket Datastar merch shop: https://data-star.dev/shop Ben’s conference talk recording: https://craftcms.com/events/dot-all-2025/sessions/real-time-collaboration-with-sprig-and-datastar

Anders Murphy is back to discuss his One Billion Checkboxes and other demos. Checkboxes demo: https://checkboxes.andersmurphy.com/ Cells demo: https://cells.andersmurphy.com/ Blinksy: https://play.putyourlightson.com/blinksy Datastar merch shop: https://data-star.dev/shop Why you should consider using brotli compression with SSE: https://andersmurphy.com/2025/04/15/why-you-should-use-brotli-sse.ht...

Blinksy demo Checkboxes demo Greedy Developer article DHH on open source software Open Source is Not About You

Inspector... Rocket... Stellar... Laravel... you’d think we were building a spaceship instead of a frontend framework!https://data-star.dev/

V1, new SITE, new GUIDE, new DOCS – it’s all live at https://data-star.dev/ Stellar CSS tweet: https://x.com/DelaneyGillilan/status/1943239740620443987

We discuss internal changes that are making everything better, while pushing to make everything ready for a public release candidate. Minification Measurements: https://delaneyj.github.io/minification_measurements/

We discuss making videos and building demos with Louis Sunshine 🇫🇷 Louis’ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@louis_sunshine

Rules (but not really), Stellar CSS (a WIP CSS framework), TypeScript (the reason Datastar exists). https://data-star.dev/ Louis Sunshine Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@louis_sunshine TypeScript Origins Documentary: https://youtu.be/U6s2pdxebSo

We discuss the Game of Life demo that was featured on Hacker News with Anders Murphy, Clojure, and making the most of Datastar. https://data-star.dev/ Game of Life demo: https://example.andersmurphy.com/

We discuss surviving Hacker News, and speak with Johnny about getting more performance out of less code. https://data-star.dev/ Changelog News: https://changelog.com/news/140 Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655914 Real-time Chat App Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/iAwmf3qgoz4 Datastar Signals on hypermedia-tv: https://youtu.be/csPFLpm8OYI Game of Life: https://example....

Delaney reveals how he made signals in Datastar 60x faster than the fastest JS signals frameworks!! Benchmark results using “molBench”: FRAMEWORK TIME (lower is better) Alien Signals: 421.80 Datastar: 6.80 Preact Signals: 415.70 SolidJS: 521.00 Svelte v5: 435.80

Ben and Delaney discuss beta 8, immutability, and event sourcing. https://data-star.dev/

Delaney and Micah Geisel discuss Idiomorph, the morphing library Datastar uses and Micah actively maintains. https://data-star.dev/ Idiomorph: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph Micah on GitHub: https://github.com/botandrose

Ben and Lazarus discuss the real-time chat application that Lazarus built, PHP quirks, and getting to grips with Datastar. hx-pod: https://hx-pod.transistor.fm/ Demo app: https://hypecp.com/wave Simple, Lovable, Complete: https://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp

Ben and Delaney discuss what happened when injecting nitrous into the engine, DOM morphing strategies, pub/sub messaging systems and NATS. https://data-star.dev/ Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web: https://csswizardry.com/2025/01/build-for-the-web-build-on-the-web-build-with-the-web/ NATS: https://nats.io/ NATS by Example: https://natsbyexample.com/

Ben and Delaney discuss beta 3, Datastar as a full-stack framework, and CQRS. How To Guides: https://data-star.dev/how_tos Livestream with Spiro Floropoulos: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2370857638

Delaney discusses what Datastar is, and what it is not, with JLarky.https://data-star.dev/JLarky: https://x.com/JLarky

Ben and Delaney discuss community updates, and how they think of Datastar as a progressive performance framework. https://data-star.dev/ How-to guides GitHub issue: https://github.com/starfederation/datastar/issues/516 Diátaxis: https://diataxis.fr/

Ben Croker and Delaney Gillilan discuss Datastar v1.