You love building web apps with Python, and HTMX got you excited about the hypermedia approach -- let the server drive the HTML, skip the JavaScript build step, keep things simple. But then you hit that last 10%: You need Alpine.js for interactivity, your state gets out of sync, and suddenly you're juggling two unrelated libraries that weren't designed to work together. What if there was a single 11-kilobyte framework that gave you everything HTMX and Alpine do, and more, with real-time updates, multiplayer collaboration out of the box, and performance so fast you're actually bottlenecked by the monitor's refresh rate? That's Datastar. On this episode, I sit down with its creator Delaney Gillilan, core maintainer Ben Croker, and Datastar convert Chris May to explore how this backend-driven, server-sent-events-first framework is changing the way full-stack developers think about the modern web.
Put State in the Right Place - Delaney Gillilan | SSW 2026
Web Engines Hackfest 2025
Solving Performance for 2D & 3D Web Apps: Finally!
Stop Ignoring the Browser: The Biggest Frontend Shift in a Decade
Native browser APIs now provide powerful alternatives for routing, state management, and components. Never mind the frameworks, use the browser.
Opera Mini is a game change : Cloud-Based Browsers and Its important to know them.
Index Introduction
The Browser is the Computer! by Daniel Lopez & Angel De Miguel @ Wasm I/O 2025
Fresh - The simple, approachable, productive web framework.
Fresh features just-in-time edge rendering, island based interactivity, and zero-configuration TypeScript support. Fast to write; fast to run.
Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison
An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.
Next.js — The Perpetual Beta Framework
Exploring 6 years of Next.js, from early days to App Router & RSC, with migrations, performance tweaks, and framework insights
Reckoning: Frontend's Lost Decade | Alex Russell | performance.now() 2024
Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More With Less JavaScript | Peter Kröner | webinale Berlin 2026
Selkies
Open-Source Low-Latency Accelerated Linux WebRTC HTML5 Remote Desktop Streaming Platform for Self-Hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, or Cloud/HPC
GitHub - playcanvas/engine: Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF
Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF - playcanvas/engine
The Future of The Web (Full Movie - without commentary) Mozilla Labs Aurora Concept Browser Video by Adaptive Path ( Internet Browser )
selkies-project/selkies
Open-Source Low-Latency Accelerated Linux WebRTC HTML5 Remote Desktop Streaming Platform for Self-Hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, or Cloud/HPC