MSmsolli·Jan 23, 2025Submission
2 points · Open discussionunpoly
unpoly
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unpoly / unpoly
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Build a complete frontend in HTML
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- bigskysoftware/intercooler-js · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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10 sourcesUnpoly 3.9.0 released – Progressive enhancement for HTML
3 points · Open discussionWhat is your opinion on https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly as a competitor ?
In Htmx 2.0.0 has been releasedhtmx is intercooler.js 2.0
intercooler.js started in Dec 2013:
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/intercooler-js/commit/62d3...
unploy started in Dec 2014:
https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly/commit/6d1691815b9c89f10e9b...
In Breaking up with JavaScript front endsLike others have mentioned, this seems to be from ~2016. The lack of HTTPS on the provided link ages this some for me, but the use of coffeescript really dates this[1]. I even thought coffeescript had been deprecated, but it does seem that the project is being kept alive[2] which is really cool.
Perhaps, what is most interesting is that it took nearly 4-5 years for the front-end community to collectively come to the conclusion that SPAs are not _always_the answer. I don't think the zeal for SPAs came from a bad place either. I can remember how poorly ASP.NET and other frameworks of the 2008-2012 era packaged an overcomplicated way to pass data to view layers. There's lots of curmudgeon-ining from non-frontend folks but, in my opinion, the lack of performance and ergonomics with existing frameworks, combined with the newness of Node.js is
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what brought about the explosion of tooling and frameworks.
There is a place for SPAs, though. VS Code, Spotify, and other apps that need a desktop / browser experience to feel like a mobile app are great candidates. Twitter, for example, shouldn't be a SPA or SPA-like application. I find that it frequently over-caches content and will randomly refresh my feed at times while I'm browsing. It feels as if a simple web page that needs to deliver more JSON responses as I scroll is trying to do too much.
1 - https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly
2 - https://coffeescript.org/#changelog
I like the potential for sending minimal document elements/objects, though it seems like HTMX/Intercooler/Unpoly features should be built into the browser. Unpoly, for example, has its own entire reimplementation of fetch():
https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly/blob/4854c7ccb268890a9522c6...
and it uses several X-HTTP-Headers, which could be standardized.
Do any browsers have the early workings of a "native web application sdk"?
In How a hypermedia approach can address usability concerns with multi-page appsThis project seems more similar to the ones below than to Vue.js:
https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine (acknowledged in their readme)
https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus
https://github.com/intercoolerjs/intercooler-js
https://github.com/mavoweb/mavo
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx
https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly
(ordered by GitHub stars)
In Show HN: Lucia – 3kB Vue AlternativeI like unpoly a lot, Henning is a perfect gentleman, but the first check in on intercooler.js was before the first check in on unpoly:
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/intercooler-js/graphs/cont...
https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly/graphs/contributors
I'm happy to change the headers htmx is young enough to get away with it. Would you like to issue a pull request?
In Htmx – high power tools for HTML