Action Web Components for Full-Stack Magic

What if your backend could drive reactive UI changes on your frontend? Without dependencies? Without relying on any particular framework? What if your HTML could gain full-stack programming superpowers?

Introducing Action Web Components—inspired by clever Ajax techniques of the past & present and ready to march boldly into the future.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Haggis Ruby, 24th October 2024 (Ayush is a speaker)
• Bridgetown 2.0 Beta is out!
• Action Web Components Which Span the the Server-Client Divide (article)
  • Demo
  • Repo

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:31 Ayush's Half Century
• 1:46 Weather Report™
• 3:16 Ayush speaking at Haggis Ruby
• 4:29 Bridgetown 2.0 Beta is out!
• 5:18 Dive in on Action Web Components
• 25:51 Building the demo with Astro, Alpine.js, and Pico CSS
• 28:16 Deploying the demo on Fly.io
• 31:34 Superpowers of the HTML <template> tag
• 33:00 Why Astro? Why not Bridgetown?
• 36:01 More on <template>
• 38:36 What about progressive enhancement?
• 43:17 Outro
• 44:44 Outtake =)