Not a fan of that.

You really just paste these 2 lines in your html and that's it:

  <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/daisyui@5" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tailwindcss/browser@4" />

I wish more UI libraries where in the same style. You can always optimize the bundle later.

I could've just Googled it sooner, but I was just surprised I couldn't find any reference to the thing it's actually building on/for.

But Datastar tries to do both, AlpineJS stuff like show/hide dropdow options, as well as HTMX stuff like talk to backend and merge/replace parts of the DOM.

I came across TemplUI a few times while working on this app so far. But always felt the Vanilla JS plus HTMX approach of TemplUI conflicts with Datastar. Too much overlap in different components doing the same stuff for my taste. While at the same time, I spent way too much time converting Tailwind UI components into Tempo. Time I could spend better.

Datastar is quite on the experimental/unstable side of things. And its concept of signals doesn't quite work for my Kubernetes style API resources. So maybe I need to revisit this decision at some point.

What I really like about Datastar and what made me choose it in the first place is how easy it makes using server sent events.

So yeah, exciting times. Still some rough edges I would say. But for me personally I already prefer hypermedia over the predominant React frontends approach.