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https://joel.drapper.me/p/morphlex/

31•joeldrapper•1w ago

At least I think it’s better, but also I could also be missing something obvious.

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sillysaurusx•1h ago

I’m curious, what got you interested in solving this particular problem? I.e. what was your specific use case?

Most websites work fine with plain html. If you need something fancier, the world seems to have settled on using React.

I get that this is to let you render html on the backend and then stream it to the site so that JS can update the dom. But why? Genuine question; I’m not saying there’s no good reason.

nzoschke•54m ago

I’m doing agentic coding on a bunch of web apps and server side rendering HTML is so much easier than building APIs and React components.

Full page reloads are fine for most CRUD cases. Then layering DOM morphing can be even better UX almost for free

hatefulheart•5m ago

If you read the first 5 sentences of the article you’d see there are at least 3 popular front end libraries that do morphing. I think suggesting the world has settled on anything when it comes to technology is very silly.

*Edit fixed typo.

rtcode_io•1h ago

Can you see if you can support the input-to-output sync of the examples you see on https://rtcode.io ?

Does your library support the new state-preserving moveBefore method?

rtcode_io•1h ago

Sorry, I was excited to see something newer than diffHTML and asked questions before reading the full article! You do use moveBefore with lots of effort to match elements, which makes Morphlex a very interesting library to try!

I will test your library extensively and update you via GitHub in case of questions/issues!

Thank you for releasing Morphlex!

Uptrenda•31m ago

Is there a website where we can try this out on?

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