Backend driven Frontends
summary
Backend renders HTML and sends incremental updates over server-sent events so pages load small and fast the client library is ~11 KB from a CDN and removes NPM builds the framework exposes reactive signals and a straight protocol so any backend can push DOM morphs the zio-http SDK is ready for Scala integration and examples show full page re-renders are acceptable with Brotli compression achieving extreme ratios and real projects like the billion checkboxes demo run on tiny VPS instances
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Frustrations with traditional SPAs
- 5:58Backend-driven frontends
- 7:03HTMX limitations and alternatives
- 10:13Introducing DataStar
- 11:59DataStar with signals
- 16:12Server-sent events superpower
- 19:04Brotli compression gains
- 22:15Live demo: DataStar chat
- 30:21Rendering strategy
- 31:46Conclusion and Q&A
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