[rapnie]

I recently found Datastar [0], another hypermedia project. It was originally inspired by htmx, but they are fully on their own (hypermedia) course. According to the devs, who had a bunch of discussions with maintainers of htmx, the htmx project considers itself finished and no new features forthcoming. It is laudible, a project considering itself complete.

Datastar considers its library v1.0 release [1] to be complete, offering a core hypermedia API, while all else consists of optional plugins. The devs have a hot take wrt htmx in their release announcement:

> While it’s going to be a very hot take, I think there is zero reason to use htmx going forward. We are smaller, faster and more future proof. In my opinion htmx is now a deprecated approach but Datastar would not exist but for the work of Carson and the surrounding team.

When you think of adopting htmx, it may be worth making a comparison to Datastar as well.

[0] https://data-star.dev/

[1] https://data-star.dev/essays/v1_and_beyond

[jadbox]

I like using both for different things. The only real complaint I have with Datastar is that its progressive-enhancement capabilities are not as nice/simple/well-defined as htmx.

[ipaddr]

By the time they posted that they were deprecated and everyone is now on jQuery.