Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps

Post by mexicocitinluez » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 10:30 AM UTC

nchmy wrote: post #184

mexicocitinluez wrote: post #131

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> It is clearly documented on the site in multiple places. Hold up, so then why is pasting THEIR documentation into a comment weird? lol. This is an absolutely insane response to someone simply informing the commentors that there is a price involved in the pro package.

because the implication in this and so many other comments is that they're dishonestly hiding something. There was no other commentary other than a large and prominent comment saying "Watch the fuck out everyone! There be $ hidden in there!"

Post by ksec » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 11:10 AM UTC

mawadev wrote: post #32

This post and other posts about datastar on the hn frontpage seem unnatural to me. It's like a marketing effort to astroturf this, especially with newly created accounts interacting with this...

Post by mexicocitinluez » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 11:50 AM UTC

sarchertech wrote: post #272

mexicocitinluez wrote: post #270

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> The conversation on this post is now centered around the fact that they have some premium features for sale. Oh the horror!!!!!!

The open core model is great and entitled buttholes, and open source warriors discouraging people from doing that is pretty horrible. I mean it’s not war in Ukraine horrible but I think it’s awful that people expect you to work for them for free.

Post by znort_ » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 2:07 PM UTC

andersmurphy wrote: post #242

znort_ wrote: post #229

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reducing complexity is important but is hardly the fundamental reason to choose between server side or client side rendering or state management. that just depends on the nature of the problem and the context it has to be solved in. sometimes it doesn't matter, then you have a choice. you guys are furiously arguing (and not really listening) about this or that hammer being good enough to treat every problem as a nail…

Why? What's stopping you putting some state on the client with datastar. Just because it's discouraged doesn't mean you can't. It has a whole client side signal system.

Post by HiPhish » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 2:32 PM UTC

andersmurphy wrote: post #241

esperent wrote: post #237

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data-animate - Animates element attributes over time. data-on-resize - Runs an expression on element resize. data-scroll-into-view - Scrolls an element into view. If these are footguns then they can't be designed very well. I also don't think you can say that they'd only appeal to a small group. I don't have any problem with them charging for whatever they want to. But let's not make up excuses.

1. You should be using CSS for animations 2. You should be using data-on to listen to the window level resize event (which doesn't require a pro plugin). 3. Scroll element into view can be replicated with data-on-load="el.scrollIntoView()" The main benefit of pro is supporting the project.