Gratitude Gratitude received from the Discord community.

My favourite Datastar discord channel just got its very own page on the site. Thanks to everyone who contributed. This the BEST type of user-generated content!!
data-star.dev/gratitude

Human on the Other Side Chat bots and AI agents are everywhere now, and while LLMs are great for contextualising information and rubber ducking, they are dead inside. They have…

Published some thoughts… for humans.

If AI overlords take over, I’ll be the first to fall.

putyourlightson.com/articles/hum...

Datastar Online Meetup Q1 2026 (edited version) YouTube video by Datastar

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 Released | Craft CMS Craft 5.9 brings new ways to organize your content, and a slew of improvements to authoring, accessibility, development, performance, and security.

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...

Datastar Online Meetup YouTube video by Datastar

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...

Billionaire Anders Murphy YouTube video by Datastar

We had @andersmurphy.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss his One Billion Checkboxes and other demos.
youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8

Shop Official not-a-cult shop.

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 Recap Dot All 2025 was as invigorating and lively as the city it was held in: Lisbon. I gave a talk entitled ​“Real-time Collaboration” in which I introduced…

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.

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...

Shout out to @joshwcomeau.com for his wonderful article on SVGs, which everyone should read!
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...

Real-Time Collaboration with Sprig and Datastar | Dot All… | Craft CMS Great digital experiences are built on interactivity and collaboration. In this talk, Ben will demonstrate how Sprig and Datastar can transform Craft…

And here’s the talk summary.
craftcms.com/events/dot-a...

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.

Datastar & Craft CMS Demos Demos and source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.

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.

Datastar Tooling YouTube video by Datastar

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...

Datastar V1: Everything you need to know about the full-stack framework of the future YouTube video by hypermedia-tv

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 🚀

GitHub - putyourlightson/laravel-datastar: A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel. A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel. Contribute to putyourlightson/laravel-datastar development by creating an account on GitHub.

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...

Datastar – A template-driven, reactive hypermedia framework for Craft. This plugin integrates the Datastar framework with Craft CMS, allowing you to create reactive frontends driven by Twig templates. It aims to replace the…

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...

arum_titan - Twitch Chill pre-live then V1 RELEASE!

Louis Sunchine is livestreaming a Datastar V1 release party 🎉
Come hang out!!
www.twitch.tv/arum_titan