Ben Croker
@bencroker.com
Founder of https://putyourlightson.com and core maintainer of https://data-star.dev
A wonderful write-up of building unac (Ultimate Noughts & Crosses) using Go and #Datastar. Highly recommended reading, and a really fun two-player game!! threadgold.nz/writing/proj...
Project retrospective: unac
A reflection on my project, Ultimate Noughts & Crosses, written in Go using Datastar.
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The moment we've all been waiting for: @bencroker.com, our first speaker of today's @viennajs.bsky.social meetup, gives his talk: Realtime Multiplayer with #Datastar
We finally managed to get @swannodette.bsky.social on the podcast to discuss his experience using Datastar, and what a cracking episode this was. Go watch it now!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECu...
Datastar: It’s Pretty Good — with David Nolen
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Less than a week to go until I speak to a room full of @viennajs.bsky.social developers about building realtime multiplayer applications. I hear it’s a big room in the @sentry.io offices in Vienna... should be a good time!! www.meetup.com/viennajs/eve...
ViennaJS June Meetup, Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Bring your JS interest and a good vibe! Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation! **Talks and info:** All details: [https://viennajs.org/en/meetup/vienna-j
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I’ll be speaking about Datastar at ViennaJS in two weeks. If anyone in and around the city feels like dropping in, entry is free and it should be a good time!! www.meetup.com/viennajs/eve...
ViennaJS June Meetup, Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Bring your JS interest and a good vibe! Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation! **Talks and info:** All details: [https://viennajs.org/en/meetup/vienna-j
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In case you were waiting for a stable version of Datastar to drop, it did. Datastar is now at 1.0, including the #CraftCMS plugin (and the #Laravel package) 🚀 putyourlightson.com/plugins/data...
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…
putyourlightson.com
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
Gratitude
Gratitude received from the Discord community.
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Published some thoughts… for humans. If AI overlords take over, I’ll be the first to fall. putyourlightson.com/articles/hum...
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…
putyourlightson.com
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 Online Meetup Q1 2026 (edited version)
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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 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...
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.
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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...
Datastar Online Meetup
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We had @andersmurphy.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss his One Billion Checkboxes and other demos. youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8
Billionaire Anders Murphy
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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
Shop
Official not-a-cult shop.
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Blinksy just learned to redraw itself on Checkboxes when things get out of sync. It has achieved sentience. I am now obsolete.
Ben Croker@bencroker.com · 10mo agoDatastar 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
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 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...
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…
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Having a blast making some final demos for my upcoming #CraftCMS talk at Dot All Lisbon 🇵🇹, using Datastar.
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.
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
Datastar & Craft CMS Demos
Demos and source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.
craftcms.data-star.dev
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.
Inspector... Rocket... Stellar... Laravel... you’d think we were building a spaceship instead of a frontend framework! youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk
Datastar Tooling
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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...
Great conversation with @data-star.dev on launching Datastar V1 🚀 youtu.be/u0I7f6NMZvk
Datastar V1: Everything you need to know about the full-stack framework of the future
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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 🚀
Home Page - Arcustech
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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...
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.
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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...
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…
putyourlightson.com
Louis Sunchine is livestreaming a Datastar V1 release party 🎉 Come hang out!! www.twitch.tv/arum_titan
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Chill pre-live then V1 RELEASE!
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It finally happened – we launched the new Datastar site and V1 (RC) 🚀 It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!! data-star.dev
