Building visualizations, dashboards, browser games and content, comes with a huge set of challenges. I build a lot of these things and the challenges are anything but solved. It's not like I'm even looking at the challenges through the eyes of youth. I'm a fledgling grey beard and have seen the industry grow and bloat over the last few decades. No combination of Next, React or new trendy framework is going to solve them and so when HTMX and Alpine made their advances, I fell in love almost immediately. A world heading back to the centrality of Hypermedia is a world I can love again! After a short amount of time, cracks started to appear, and after many ~~debates~~, ~~arguments~~, discussions with the HTMX team, I explored my own approach and eventually it became worthy of its own name, Datastar. It started out as a framework for making plugins for Hypermedia, and today, straight out of the box, it supports all the tooling for making real-time apps in Hypermedia. I promise not to send you to sleep and will show you the approach, how to create the much loved hello world equivalent, a real-time chat app, and the grand finale, a project that is set to change the face of developer education; a 3D city, controlled completely with Hypermedia. You'll see how simple it is, with performance that will remove your eyebrows. From UtahJS Conf on September 13, 2024 in Sandy, Utah www.utahjs.com

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