Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it

Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by HiPhish on Thursday September 25, 2025 @02:49PM (#45377138)

It's not about the money, it's about the fact that I would depend on vendor-locked functionality. I cannot maintain my own fork of it if for whatever reason I had to. I don't want to fork datastar if I don't have to, but I want to be able to do so if I have to.

Alpine does have a "pro" version as well, but it's just copy&paste code examples. I am not complaining about Alpine, and I even got my employer to pay the maintainer more than what the datastart guys are charging for their pro version. So again, this is not about money.

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Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by andersmurphy on Friday September 26, 2025 @06:41AM (#45384954)

You get the entire source with pro. Nothing is stopping you maintaining your own private fork for use in your commercial product. If datastar the non profit disappear tomorrow you would still have the source. So where is the problem?

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Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by HiPhish on Saturday September 27, 2025 @04:13AM (#45394011)

> your own private fork

That right there is the problem, it's maintainer lock-in, I cannot share my improvements with anyone else or benefit from other people's improvements.

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Re:Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it by andersmurphy on Saturday September 27, 2025 @01:27PM (#45397718)

So you'd prefer if it was free and GPL?

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