Just published an edited version of last week’s Datastar online meetup with timestamped chapters, for anyone who missed it or wants to watch a particular part again. Thanks again to our guests and to everyone who joined the stream!!
youtu.be/xN30XVJpwLU
Datastar Discord server avatars on a world map.
We’ll be going live in an hour and have some fantastic demos coming. You might even see yourself in one of them!!
youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
Craft 5.9 is here, bringing new ways to organize your content, and a slew of improvements to authoring, accessibility, development, performance, and security. #CraftCMS craftcms.com/blog/craft-5...
Join us live on YouTube for the first Datastar Online Meetup this coming Thursday, and hear about http-nu from @ndyg.ca, Stario from Adam Bobowski, Rocket from @zangster.bsky.social , and Stellar CSS from @data-star.dev.
Mark your calendars and see you there!
www.youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
We had @andersmurphy.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss his One Billion Checkboxes and other demos.
youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8
Going back to fundamentals and building a completely custom merch store using Datastar and Go has been extremely gratifying.
Here’s the end result.
data-star.dev/shop
Blinksy just learned to redraw itself on Checkboxes when things get out of sync.
It has achieved sentience.
I am now obsolete.
Datastar demos have started cross-pollinating. Soon they’ll form a hive mind and ship the next release themselves.
Blinksy: play.putyourlightson.com/blinksy
Checkboxes: checkboxes.andersmurphy.com?x=1312&y=1310
Dot All 2025 was a wonderful event (big thanks to @leahstephenson.bsky.social and the entire @craftcms.com crew)!!
In case you missed it, here’s my recap.
putyourlightson.com/articles/dot...
This feels like the right move and the right way to make it happen. Great decision!!
Sounds like a great use of AI, nicely done!
I can’t imagine how much work it was to make those interactive demos. The one in my video is just a couple of `data-*` attributes using Datastar (data-star.dev). If you’re curious, I’d be happy to show you the code for it.
Shout out to @joshwcomeau.com for his wonderful article on SVGs, which everyone should read!
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
Having a blast making some final demos for my upcoming #CraftCMS talk at Dot All Lisbon 🇵🇹, using Datastar.
I should add, this was created by someone very cool who prefers to stay anonymous (you know who you are!). I just added the finishing touches.
The talk description…
craftcms.com/events/dot-a...
My upcoming #CraftCMS Dot All conference talk will feature real-time demos with audience participation. This is me load testing 100 virtual users, each clicking on a random cell to toggle it on/off every 1 second. The CPU purrs along at 100% and memory remains well within capacity.
Just published a Datastar & #CraftCMS Demo site with source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.
craftcms.data-star.dev
Ran the test again with gzip enabled for event streams and I’m getting a compression ratio of 30:1. Pretty sweet for a one-line config change.
Load testing a VPS ahead of my upcoming #CraftCMS conference talk, in which I’ll be inviting audience participation. This tests up to 100 users hitting the server every second for 30s. Datastar has no problem receiving almost 90MB in over 1k events, and the server purrs along at 100% CPU.
Inspector... Rocket... Stellar... Laravel... you’d think we were building a spaceship instead of a frontend framework!
youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk
Measurements of the time to swap large numbers of DOM elements.
I love simple, transparent benchmarks, and this one doesn’t disappoint: measuring the time to swap large numbers of DOM elements.
The repo can be forked and tests varied thanks to excellent work by Zach Williams 🚀
github.com/zachwill/ben...
Great conversation with @data-star.dev on launching Datastar V1 🚀
youtu.be/u0I7f6NMZvk
A big shout out to @arcustech.com for supporting the cause by sponsoring Datastar with a 2 GB, 2 core, self-hosted VPS, which has been performing exceptionally well with all the traffic recently received 🚀
The Datastar package for @laravel.com has been updated with all the goodies that shipped in Datastar v1.0.0-RC.1. Read the release notes (some breaking changes included) and check out the new docs 🚀
github.com/putyourlight...
The Datastar plugin for @craftcms.com has been updated for all the goodies that shipped in Datastar v1.0.0-RC.1. Read the release notes (some breaking changes included) and check out the new docs 🚀
putyourlightson.com/plugins/data...
Louis Sunchine is livestreaming a Datastar V1 release party 🎉
Come hang out!!
www.twitch.tv/arum_titan
The new Datastar homepage.
It finally happened – we launched the new Datastar site and V1 (RC) 🚀
It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!!
data-star.dev
Sorry for your loss!
