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@ryansolid.bsky.social thanks for the discussion on stream today! You asked on stream today to show you a trello or otherwise sufficiently complex app in datastar. Here is that as as well as a few others that opened my eyes a bit, as a former skeptic. kanban.jsonbateman.com

Try slowing down the network and interacting with it and see what happens. No feedback that anything is in flight and if i drag a card and then try to edit another before that is done the entire app freezes. I do think Ryan is genuinely open to be proven wrong here but this isn't it.

For sure! Can you clarify which part isn't it? Not trying to be rude, want to be explicit about what we're agreeing or disagreeing on. The feedback on the kanban board example could be improved, agree. How does a SPA handle the slow network roundtrip better here? Not following that part.

Trello as a demo comes from a challenge by Ryan Florence where he roasted peoples implementations seeing specifically how interacting with them broke in various ways when network was slow. There isn't a clear rule set but not waiting for network on every action feels like table stakes.

data-star.dev/examples/roc... is like people can't be bothered to read docs anymore. Extremely frustrating. You put state in the right place, most of the time that means on the server.

bsky.app/profile/gabb...

No one is disagreeing that source of truth should be server here. That doesn't mean it has to be a sluggish broken mess.

Who is asking for that? Maybe watch my talk?

Who is asking for an app that isn't a broken sluggish mess? Users seem to tolerate a lot these days but I think we can do better.

Yes totally don't engage with the actual ideas instead base all assumptions on someone's llm generated app. Truly you are a dev for the current age.

I'm just trying out the examples shared with me. They are claimed to show datastar can do things while failing spectacularly at doing it.

Many try the guide, official examples, etc?

I trust that your users have read your guides before creating these demos they choose to share with me to show off how good datastar is. Them still failing to build competent apps doesn't inspire confidence that datastar makes building such apps easy.

I'm disappointed with how this conversation has evolved, but that's what I get for trying to have it in twitter-format. It might be more productive to chat in a different format. Feel free to reach out to me directly if you want. I think it could be interesting.

The impetus for this post was in response to Ryan's stream. The argument was that Datastar is not suited to building things in the "application" tier, which I take to mean things with rich interactivity and deep clientside interaction (a la Alex Russell's definitions, for example).

I've consulted, worked on, and led teams now building SPAs in primarily React and derivatives for over a decade. They regularly fail spectacularly, and while I agree that these examples aren't it, I don't think that's sufficient to dismiss the ideas categorically.

I say this in the same way I wouldn't (and don't) dismiss Solid or SPAs or WASM-built apps categorically. What I *am* interested in is the fact that there is a significant complexity cost to SPAs that my teams have struggled with forever. I do not think that complexity is all inherent.

Datastar is an alternative that, so far for me, seems to be better on both fronts.