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Re:Building a Single-Page App with Htmx by klibertp on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:29PM (#41771784)
> I'm not sure how XHR alone would let you automatically get backend state changes reflected to the frontend.

Long polling.

Check out (history of) "Comet": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)#Implementa...

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Re:Building a Single-Page App with Htmx by jpc0 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:21AM (#41776532)
SSR is effectively long polling with a standardised format and is browser native.

Also writing a client ontop of an existing HTML client is very very easy so even when not on web it's east to implement...

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