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Big intercooler fan here, I’ll definitely be checking this out.

For others interested in this field of “graceful enhancement” see also unpoly: https://unpoly.com/

OP may also want to look into integrating some features/ideas from there as it is very similar to intercooler.

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Another vote for unpoly, it’s jquery free as well.

I’m currently using it in a project that’s a PWA and its been a pleasure to work with.

Well, it’s the same size as intercooler plus jQuery, so not a lot of savings here. :)

Size aside, there was a considerable increase in performance after jquery was removed.

https://blog.makandra.com/2019/01/performance-impact-of-remo...

Unpoly is awesome, and I think deserves more recognition. Having said that I recently moved to Alpine JS (plus Turbolinks) and I think that also deserves more recognition https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine

Ah, yes, that’s the other one I was trying to remember.

Can you explain your switch and the library choice a bit more? Turbolinks seems to me to be a very primitive version of Intercooler/Unpoly.

Yup, so this is really for my use case - but essentially unpoly was great, but after a while I started having a lot of custom compilers for specific things.. And again, that's fine - but I was really trying to have less custom JS code off in seperate files. Turbolinks gave me the super simple ajax page-refresh concept, and Alpine allowed me to move my JS functionality inline.. which I actually like (for now!). I actually use Alpine with Laravel Livewire for some more server-side functionality that seems like magic (similar to Phoenix LiveView) https://laravel-livewire.com/docs/quickstart

Thanks for taking the time to share. It’s appreciated.

Thanks! Unpoly is an excellent project.

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