Nats Jetstream extension

[gedw99]

Basically like https://github.com/Renerick/htmx-signalr but for nats jetstream .

just putting it out there to see if there is much interest

https://github.com/synadia-io/rethink_connectivity If you don’t know hat NATS Jetstream is. Its basically a Message Queue that can react to changes and push updates to clients.

[nickchomey]

This would be great

[XChikuX]

YES!

[gedw99]

For now I use Datastar .

It’s has a nats leaf node integrated so that each server can be told of events and then push the html changes to users over SSE.

I think it’s a decent solution as SSE is so simple as a notification mechanism …

[nickchomey]

To clarify, datastar doesn't have any nats stuff built in. It's just a js library, like htmx. But it does operate on receiving SSE messages, and has a bunch of language-specific SDKs for easily sending them.

Their website code is open source and runs on golang, and happens to have a nats server (not leaf node) embedded for triggering updates to be sent via sse to the browser, where the Datastar library handles them.

To use any of that in a real application would require considerable customization. And, again, there's no requirement to use NATS with datastar - it just wants SSE messages, and is agnostic to how they were created.

But, yes, Datastar seems to be a much better solution overall for this sort of stuff than HTMX, due to native SSE, OOB swap (via idiomorph by default), and also has reactivity via signals (no need for alpinejs etc). And it is much smaller than htmx and alpine.