I Switched from Htmx to Datastar

Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by wheresmylogin on Friday October 10, 2025 @04:33AM (#45536562)

Interesting write-up. Thanks.

I've written costumer-facing interfaces in HTMX and currently quite like it.

One comment. HTMX supports out-of-bound replies which makes it possible to update multiple targets in one request. There's also ways for the server to redirect the target to something else.

I use this a lot, as well as HTMX's support for SSE. I'd have to check what Datastar offers here, because SSE is one thing that makes dashboarding in HTMX a breeze.

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Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by nabla9 on Friday October 10, 2025 @04:55AM (#45536658)

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Maybe I'm cynical, but fresh new accounts praising stuff that has only the core open source, works as negative-ad.

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Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by darrenf on Friday October 10, 2025 @05:12AM (#45536754)

Isn’t HTMX fully open source? The comment you’re replying to has no outright praise for Datastar.

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Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by cenamus on Friday October 10, 2025 @05:50AM (#45537012)

Must be part of HTMX' highly paid marketing team ;)

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Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by wheresmylogin on Friday October 10, 2025 @07:02AM (#45537446)

More like unpaid fan account. Anyway since HTMX is open source and free, it's easy to validate.

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Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar by rpdillon on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:39AM (#45538882)

You're accusing the poster of shilling. That's against site rules, but aside from that it makes no sense in this context -- the post talks about the advantages of HTMX versus Datastar.

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