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I have given a try to data-star that is pretty similar to htmx, and it already had SSE support. (But I think it is a bit more complete solution to the problem - giving lightweight primitives for client-side interactivity)

I think it's (referring to both) a pretty nice framework, though it does require a bit of mental "undoing" if you have worked a lot with SPAs.

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The part that really sets Datastar apart for me is it holds client-side variables which are included in all requests. So I no longer have to think about piping & preserving view state when the DOM gets patched.

It's also neat how they use SSE for short-lived streams. Need a response to delete + add something? That's just two SSE events and then the stream closes. It's not a special case, it's a first-class mechanism.

Very happy with Datastar so far.

I've been playing around with making a little framework for building these server driven UIs in a way with a syntax more like SPAs. I originally was using datastar behind the scenes, but decided to just write my own version of it, much easier to work with.

https://github.com/StreamUI/hyperstar

Hey I read over hyperstar and enjoy the whole minimal interface for syncing server state. Please do continue working on this and announce when it graduates from beta phase :)

Oh, missed this message! Thanks a lot :)

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