We discuss the Game of Life demo that was featured on Hacker News with Anders Murphy, Clojure, and making the most of Datastar.

https://data-star.dev/

Game of Life demo: https://example.andersmurphy.com/

We discuss surviving Hacker News, and speak with Johnny about getting more performance out of less code.

https://data-star.dev/

Changelog News: https://changelog.com/news/140

Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655914

Real-time Chat App Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/iAwmf3qgoz4

Datastar Signals on hypermedia-tv: https://youtu.be/csPFLpm8OYI

Game of Life: https://example.andersmurphy.com/

Delaney reveals how he made signals in Datastar 60x faster than the fastest JS signals frameworks!!

Benchmark results using “molBench”:

FRAMEWORK TIME (lower is better)

Alien Signals: 421.80

Datastar: 6.80

Preact Signals: 415.70

SolidJS: 521.00

Svelte v5: 435.80

Ben and Delaney discuss beta 8, immutability, and event sourcing.

https://data-star.dev/

Delaney and Micah Geisel discuss Idiomorph, the morphing library Datastar uses and Micah actively maintains.

https://data-star.dev/

Idiomorph: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph

Micah on GitHub: https://github.com/botandrose

Ben and Lazarus discuss the real-time chat application that Lazarus built, PHP quirks, and getting to grips with Datastar.

hx-pod: https://hx-pod.transistor.fm/

Demo app: https://hypecp.com/wave

Simple, Lovable, Complete: https://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp

Ben and Delaney discuss what happened when injecting nitrous into the engine, DOM morphing strategies, pub/sub messaging systems and NATS.

https://data-star.dev/

Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web: https://csswizardry.com/2025/01/build-for-the-web-build-on-the-web-build-with-the-web/

NATS: https://nats.io/

NATS by Example: https://natsbyexample.com/

Ben and Delaney discuss beta 3, Datastar as a full-stack framework, and CQRS.

How To Guides: https://data-star.dev/how_tos

Livestream with Spiro Floropoulos: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2370857638

Delaney discusses what Datastar is, and what it is not, with JLarky.https://data-star.dev/JLarky: https://x.com/JLarky

Ben and Delaney discuss community updates, and how they think of Datastar as a progressive performance framework.

https://data-star.dev/

How-to guides GitHub issue:

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