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by hk__2 1726 days ago
> Meaning - you update the database on the server and all the relevant UI(s) will automatically receive the updated data and re-render only the parts of the UI that display that data.

> This would require a ton of PHP and Javascript dealing with networking, websockets, routing, serializing data and so on.

I don’t know how it was implemented, but Quora had this back in its early days (~2012). There was some mechanism that "remembered" which table lines were used to generate which UI component, and when that data changed you had a live-reload in your browser. That was really cool to see at the time; I’d love to have more background on its implementation.