Building interactive websites in a post-framework web
Danyl Strype Wed 4 Mar 2026 10:44PMPublicSeen by 72I recently stumbled across Daz's guide to building websites using HDA (Hypermedia-Driven Architecture), as an replacement for heavy and regularly obsoleted JavaScript frameworks like React. The finer details of his code examples go over my head, but what I think I understand from his description of the architecture, and the reasoning behind it, seems groundbreaking.
The examples in Daz's guide are based around using HTMX. A comment on SH mentioned DataStar, which is maybe an alternative to HTMX? Certainly seems to have similar goals from what I read on their homepage.
From what I read in Daz's guide, it seems like adopting this kind of approach to interactive web interfaces like Loomio, and fediverse web apps, could be a game-changer. Massively reducing the complexity of feature development and maintenance, and avoiding the cycle of having to massively refactor every time the JS framework in use becomes obsolete.
Thoughts?
Danyl Strype ·Wed 4 Mar 2026 10:49PM
For example, re-architecting Loomio as an HDA could be a way to massively improve the UX on mobile. Which remains hard to use, at least in the Firefox-based mobile browser I use. I just tried to edit my OP here for clarity, and was unable to find a submit button, as I juggled the various unanchored page elements. I'll need to switch to my laptop to do that, which is an option many people don't have in 2026.