Hypermedia – the solution for future web applications?
summary
Argues that pushing state back to the server makes web apps smaller and simpler, claims site payloads grow roughly fivefold every decade, demonstrates lightweight hypermedia stacks like HTMX, Hotwire, Unpoly and DataStar with server‑sent events powering a realtime “1 billion checkboxes” demo on a €10/month server, shows a ~10KB client runtime and a local model Gwen 3.59B generating slides, and concludes hypermedia plus affordances enable agentic user interfaces that actually work and cut client complexity.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Hypermedia introduction
- 1:11Growing website size
- 2:59Hypermedia history
- 10:03Defining hypermedia
- 12:32MPAs to SPAs to HDAs
- 16:01REST APIs and hypermedia
- 17:46State on the server
- 19:32Modern hypermedia tools
- 20:35Live streaming demo
- 22:22Data Star with HTML patches
- 24:07HDAs to agentic UIs
- 26:40AI presentation demo
- 31:11Hypermedia in agentic UIs
- 32:36Conclusion
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