Ben Croker
@bencroker.com
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Founder of
https://putyourlightson.com
and core maintainer of
https://data-star.dev
In case you were waiting for a stable version of Datastar to drop, it did. Datastar is now at 1.0, including the
#CraftCMS
plugin (and the
#Laravel
package) 🚀
putyourlightson.com/plugins/data...
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Datastar – A template-driven, reactive hypermedia framework for Craft.
This plugin integrates the Datastar framework with Craft CMS, allowing you to create reactive frontends driven by Twig templates. It aims to replace the…
https://putyourlightson.com/plugins/datastar
10 days ago
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My favourite Datastar discord channel just got its very own page on the site. Thanks to everyone who contributed. This the BEST type of user-generated content!!
data-star.dev/gratitude
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Gratitude
Gratitude received from the Discord community.
https://data-star.dev/gratitude
about 1 month ago
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Published some thoughts… for humans. If AI overlords take over, I’ll be the first to fall.
putyourlightson.com/articles/hum...
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Human on the Other Side
Chat bots and AI agents are everywhere now, and while LLMs are great for contextualising information and rubber ducking, they are dead inside. They have…
https://putyourlightson.com/articles/human-on-the-other-side
about 2 months ago
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Just published an edited version of last week’s Datastar online meetup with timestamped chapters, for anyone who missed it or wants to watch a particular part again. Thanks again to our guests and to everyone who joined the stream!!
youtu.be/xN30XVJpwLU
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Datastar Online Meetup Q1 2026 (edited version)
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/xN30XVJpwLU
3 months ago
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We’ll be going live in an hour and have some fantastic demos coming. You might even see yourself in one of them!!
youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
3 months ago
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Ben Croker
Craft CMS
3 months ago
Craft 5.9 is here, bringing new ways to organize your content, and a slew of improvements to authoring, accessibility, development, performance, and security.
#CraftCMS
craftcms.com/blog/craft-5...
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Craft 5.9 Released | Craft CMS
Craft 5.9 brings new ways to organize your content, and a slew of improvements to authoring, accessibility, development, performance, and security.
https://craftcms.com/blog/craft-5-9-released
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Join us live on YouTube for the first Datastar Online Meetup this coming Thursday, and hear about http-nu from
@ndyg.ca
, Stario from Adam Bobowski, Rocket from
@zangster.bsky.social
, and Stellar CSS from
@data-star.dev
. Mark your calendars and see you there!
www.youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
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Datastar Online Meetup
YouTube video by Datastar
https://www.youtube.com/live/lc48MUnS2wM
3 months ago
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We had
@andersmurphy.bsky.social
back on the pod to discuss his One Billion Checkboxes and other demos.
youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8
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Billionaire Anders Murphy
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8
6 months ago
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Going back to fundamentals and building a completely custom merch store using Datastar and Go has been extremely gratifying. Here’s the end result.
data-star.dev/shop
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Shop
Official not-a-cult shop.
https://data-star.dev/shop
6 months ago
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Blinksy just learned to redraw itself on Checkboxes when things get out of sync. It has achieved sentience. I am now obsolete.
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7 months ago
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Datastar demos have started cross-pollinating. Soon they’ll form a hive mind and ship the next release themselves. Blinksy:
play.putyourlightson.com/blinksy
Checkboxes:
checkboxes.andersmurphy.com?x=1312&y=1310
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7 months ago
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Dot All 2025 was a wonderful event (big thanks to
@leahstephenson.bsky.social
and the entire
@craftcms.com
crew)!! In case you missed it, here’s my recap.
putyourlightson.com/articles/dot...
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Dot All 2025 Recap
Dot All 2025 was as invigorating and lively as the city it was held in: Lisbon. I gave a talk entitled “Real-time Collaboration” in which I introduced…
https://putyourlightson.com/articles/dot-all-2025-recap
7 months ago
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This feels like the right move and the right way to make it happen. Great decision!!
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7 months ago
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Having a blast making some final demos for my upcoming
#CraftCMS
talk at Dot All Lisbon 🇵🇹, using Datastar.
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8 months ago
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My upcoming
#CraftCMS
Dot All conference talk will feature real-time demos with audience participation. This is me load testing 100 virtual users, each clicking on a random cell to toggle it on/off every 1 second. The CPU purrs along at 100% and memory remains well within capacity.
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8 months ago
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Just published a Datastar &
#CraftCMS
Demo site with source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.
craftcms.data-star.dev
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Datastar & Craft CMS Demos
Demos and source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.
https://craftcms.data-star.dev/
8 months ago
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Load testing a VPS ahead of my upcoming
#CraftCMS
conference talk, in which I’ll be inviting audience participation. This tests up to 100 users hitting the server every second for 30s. Datastar has no problem receiving almost 90MB in over 1k events, and the server purrs along at 100% CPU.
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8 months ago
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Inspector... Rocket... Stellar... Laravel... you’d think we were building a spaceship instead of a frontend framework!
youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk
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Datastar Tooling
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk
9 months ago
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I love simple, transparent benchmarks, and this one doesn’t disappoint: measuring the time to swap large numbers of DOM elements. The repo can be forked and tests varied thanks to excellent work by Zach Williams 🚀
github.com/zachwill/ben...
9 months ago
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Great conversation with
@data-star.dev
on launching Datastar V1 🚀
youtu.be/u0I7f6NMZvk
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Datastar V1: Everything you need to know about the full-stack framework of the future
YouTube video by hypermedia-tv
https://youtu.be/u0I7f6NMZvk
9 months ago
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A big shout out to
@arcustech.com
for supporting the cause by sponsoring Datastar with a 2 GB, 2 core, self-hosted VPS, which has been performing exceptionally well with all the traffic recently received 🚀
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Home Page - Arcustech
https://ArcusTech.com
10 months ago
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The Datastar package for
@laravel.com
has been updated with all the goodies that shipped in Datastar v1.0.0-RC.1. Read the release notes (some breaking changes included) and check out the new docs 🚀
github.com/putyourlight...
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GitHub - putyourlightson/laravel-datastar: A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel.
A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel. Contribute to putyourlightson/laravel-datastar development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/putyourlightson/laravel-datastar
10 months ago
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The Datastar plugin for
@craftcms.com
has been updated for all the goodies that shipped in Datastar v1.0.0-RC.1. Read the release notes (some breaking changes included) and check out the new docs 🚀
putyourlightson.com/plugins/data...
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Datastar – A template-driven, reactive hypermedia framework for Craft.
This plugin integrates the Datastar framework with Craft CMS, allowing you to create reactive frontends driven by Twig templates. It aims to replace the…
https://putyourlightson.com/plugins/datastar
10 months ago
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Louis Sunchine is livestreaming a Datastar V1 release party 🎉 Come hang out!!
www.twitch.tv/arum_titan
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arum_titan - Twitch
Chill pre-live then V1 RELEASE!
https://www.twitch.tv/arum_titan
10 months ago
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It finally happened – we launched the new Datastar site and V1 (RC) 🚀 It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like
@data-star.dev
and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!!
data-star.dev
10 months ago
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In which we discuss internal changes that are making everything better, while pushing to make everything ready for a public release candidate of Datastar...
youtu.be/tNH3Tyc1s1k
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Everything is fine
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/tNH3Tyc1s1k
10 months ago
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We discussed making Datastar videos and building demos with the very French, very upbeat Louis Sunshine 🇫🇷☀️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0n...
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Collecting Dragon Balls, with Louis Sunshine
YouTube video by Datastar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0nVT5vihs
11 months ago
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Datastar is developed and maintained by a handful of core contributors and backed by Star Federation—a nonprofit organization. We added the ability to sponsor our work just a few days ago, and WOW is the community showing its support!! Take a peek 👀
github.com/sponsors/sta...
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Sponsor @starfederation on GitHub Sponsors
Support the development and ongoing maintenance of Datastar and our other open-source work.
https://github.com/sponsors/starfederation/
12 months ago
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To become a billionaire: Step 1: Become a millionaire. Step 2: Do that 999 more times. Easy.
#datastar
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12 months ago
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The Blitz Hints utility, first introduced three years ago, has been retired in version 5.10.0.
#CraftCMS
putyourlightson.com/articles/one...
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One Last Hint: Eager-Load All the Things
The Blitz Hints utility, first introduced three years ago, has been retired in 5.10.0.
https://putyourlightson.com/articles/one-last-hint-eager-load-all-the-things
12 months ago
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In this episode we discussed the Game of Life demo that was featured on Hacker News with Anders Murphy, Clojure, and making the most of Datastar. (Also on the podcast players.)
#datastar
#hypermedia
#clojure
youtu.be/xzC3g0qIRro
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Anders and the Game of Life
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/xzC3g0qIRro
about 1 year ago
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In this episode we discussed surviving Hacker News, and spoke with Johnny “Zignals” about getting more performance out of less code.
#datastar
#hypermedia
#framework
youtu.be/x_Hu30V01iY
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Johnny Zignals: more perf, less code
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/x_Hu30V01iY
about 1 year ago
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Datastar was featured in this week’s Changelog news 🚀
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about 1 year ago
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Added a videos page to the Datastar site – embedding lots of YouTube videos makes page loads extremely slow, so guess what we’re doing instead... using `data-on-click` to only load the player when thumbnails are clicked. Dogfooding is the best 🚀
data-star.dev/videos
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Videos
A day without a good video is like a joke without a punchline—pointless.
https://data-star.dev/videos
about 1 year ago
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Datastar v1.0.0-beta.11 adds more fine-grained wildcard support (* to match a single path segment, ** to match multiple path segments). The beta phase is now officially unofficially over, and the next release should be v1.0.0 🚀
github.com/starfederati...
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Release v1.0.0-beta.11 · starfederation/datastar
This release adds wildcard support to data-on-signals-change-*, data-persist, @setAll and @toggleAll using * to match a single path segment and ** to match multiple path segments. Note that this do...
https://github.com/starfederation/datastar/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.11
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Ben Croker
CraftEntries
about 1 year ago
Are you bored on a Sunday? Maybe you'll learn something about Datastar in the new
#podcast
episode.
#craftcms
craftentries.io/podcast/reac...
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Reactive Craft CMS frontends with Datastar
In Episode 21 of the CraftEntries podcast, host Thomas interviews Ben Croker from PutYourLightsOn about Datastar. This hypermedia framework aims to…
https://craftentries.io/podcast/reactive-craft-cms-frontends-with-datastar
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reposted by
Ben Croker
John F Morton
about 1 year ago
I've published a post about using Datastar and the Datastar for Craft CMS plugin. Thank you to Ben Croker for looking it over and offering suggestions along the way.
#craftcms
#datastar
supergeekery.com/blog/unlocki...
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Unlocking Real-Time Reactive Search in Craft CMS with Datastar - SuperGeekery
This blog post showcases creating a reactive search page in Craft CMS using the Datastar plugin. Datastar, a lightweight JavaScript framework, provides real-time search functionality without necessita...
https://supergeekery.com/blog/unlocking-real-time-reactive-search-in-craft-cms-with-datastar
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📺 In which we discuss Datastar beta 8, immutability, and event sourcing. 🎧 Also available on the podcast players.
youtu.be/OV6xS865pF0
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Immutability & Event Sourcing
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/OV6xS865pF0
about 1 year ago
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In case you missed last week’s @craftquest_io livestream in which I introduced and showed real-time demos using
#CraftCMS
, the recording is now online.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjU...
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Intro to Datastar (and Craft CMS)
YouTube video by CraftQuest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjU1st-52g
about 1 year ago
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Here’s a teaser of something I’m going to demo in tomorrow’s
@craftquest.io
livestream. I think you’ll want to see it!
#CraftCMS
craftquest.io/livestreams
about 1 year ago
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I sat down with Lazarus of hx-pod to discuss the real-time chat application that he built, PHP quirks, and getting to grips with Datastar. (Also available on the podcast players.)
#datastar
#php
#hyperscript
#pubsub
youtu.be/DTURjpV2ZHQ
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Getting to grips with Datastar
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/DTURjpV2ZHQ
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Ben Croker
CraftQuest
about 1 year ago
Come learn about Datastar, a hypermedia framework that helps you build reactive web apps, with guest Ben Croker. Noon eastern on Thursday 2/20! 🚀
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CraftQuest on Call: Datastar
Come learn about Datastar, a hypermedia framework that helps you build reactive web apps, with guest Ben Croker. Noon eastern on Thursday 2/20! 🚀
https://buff.ly/2CNfEIF
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What happened when we injected nitrous into the engine, DOM morphing strategies, pub/sub messaging systems and NATS.
#datastar
#dom
#hyperscript
#nats
youtu.be/zu92P9wyUfI
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Tuning the engine; Idiomorph; Pub/Sub; NATS
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/zu92P9wyUfI
about 1 year ago
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We are back on the tube, discussing beta 3, Datastar as a full-stack framework, and CQRS. You can find us on the podcast players, too.
#datastar
youtu.be/a6ByFsFCN0c
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Beta 3; Full-stack framework; CQRS
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/a6ByFsFCN0c
about 1 year ago
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This example was shown using the PHP SDK. Not a long-lived connection, but one that stays alive only as long as it needs to. Configuring the backend to stop processing the request if the browser window is closed as as easy as adding a single line of code.
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over 1 year ago
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All Datastar SDKs will soon ship with a “Hello, world!” example that demonstrates fragments being streamed to the browser in a single response–all in just a few lines of code. Here you can see the DOM updates on the left, and the SSE events being streamed on the right.
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over 1 year ago
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🔴 In this pod, we discuss community updates, and how we think of Datastar as a progressive performance framework. 🚀
#performance
#javascript
#framework
youtu.be/hUqFY9TQvdM
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Datastar – The progressive performance framework
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/hUqFY9TQvdM
over 1 year ago
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reposted by
Ben Croker
Datastar CEO
over 1 year ago
Damn this @htmx_org guy seems to really grok hypermedia, maybe we should listen to him?
htmx.org/essays/alter...
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</> htmx ~ Alternatives to htmx
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext...
https://htmx.org/essays/alternatives/#datastar
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We pressed record 🔴 We talked about Datastar v1 🚀 We uploaded a video 📼
#hypermedia
#javascript
#framework
youtu.be/99wTA9sFEWE
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Datastar v1
YouTube video by Datastar
https://youtu.be/99wTA9sFEWE
over 1 year ago
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Just released the Datastar package for Laravel 🤖 🥳 🚀
github.com/putyourlight...
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GitHub - putyourlightson/laravel-datastar: A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel.
A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel. Contribute to putyourlightson/laravel-datastar development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/putyourlightson/laravel-datastar
over 1 year ago
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