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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=PLbqyjFEQew904tnpc7dtc6VuyX7HikBfRTalk Python to Me podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFc74eFhKBYWookash 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/rocketStario: https://stario.dev/Also worth watching is David Yang’s ClojureConj conference talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6Lr1hRgXo
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/bnRNgZjgPhNorthstar: https://github.com/zangster300/northstarRocket: https://data-star.dev/reference/rocketThe 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/rocketDatastar merch shop: https://data-star.dev/shopBen’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/blinksyDatastar merch shop: https://data-star.dev/shopWhy you should consider using brotli compression with SSE: https://andersmurphy.com/2025/04/15/why-you-should-use-brotli-sse.html
Blinksy demoCheckboxes demoGreedy Developer articleDHH on open source softwareOpen 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_sunshineTypeScript 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/140Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655914Real-time Chat App Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/iAwmf3qgoz4Datastar Signals on hypermedia-tv: https://youtu.be/csPFLpm8OYIGame of Life: https://example.andersmurphy.com/
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: 421.80Datastar: 6.80Preact Signals: 415.70SolidJS: 521.00Svelte 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/idiomorphMicah 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/waveSimple, 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














