054: Datastar with Delaney Gillilan

03/11/25 • 56 min

This week I talk with Delaney Gillilan, the creator of Datastar, a framework that helps building web applications with the reactivity of a single page app but with the programming model of a good old server-rendered page from the backend. Datastar combines the power of HTMX and Alpine.js in a simple and lightweight way.

Links:

Datastar website

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Links:

Datastar website

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Transcript

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Hello there, I'm Dominic Saint Pierre and you're listening to Go Podcast. Today I'm joined by Delaney Gilliland and we talk about Datastar. If you are on the Gopher's Slack community, I would appreciate if you can join the Go podcast channel. So it's in one word. We are there. I'm not sure, you know, where where are the listeners, of the show because, you know, the stats show that we, we are a lot of people and, yeah, the channel is, is a little bit qu