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title: Blog
date: 2025-10-06T14:39:00+02:00
author: admin
canonical_url: "https://craft-kit.dev/blog-hypermedia-datastar"
section: Pages
---
The **Datastar Hypermedia Blog** demonstrates how Craft CMS becomes a fully reactive platform — without JavaScript frameworks, without build complexity, without giving up control.

Using a Hypermedia-driven approach, the blog delivers category filtering, infinite load-more pagination, and real-time UI updates — all written directly in Twig. The server stays the source of truth. The browser does what it was built for.

No Vue. No React. No Alpine. Datastar wires up reactivity through standard data-\* attributes and a single SSE connection — keeping templates server-rendered, accessible, and easy to maintain.

Each interaction triggers a targeted HTML fragment response from Craft — no JSON, no client-side state management, no reconciliation. Just HTML, streamed and morphed into place.

The result: a snappy, modern experience built the way the web was designed to work.

🧪 **Want to dive deeper into Datastar? Explore** [**Craft-CMS-Datastar-Duels**](https://github.com/handplant/Craft-CMS-Datastar-Duels) **— an experimental playground with nothing but Datastar and pure Twig magic.**

 

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 10.04.2026

  Development  

## Making Craft CMS AI-Ready — What GEO Actually Means in Practice

 

GEO is the new SEO — but most of what you read about it is either theoretical or plain wrong. Here's what I actually implemented in Craft Kit, what works, and what you can safely ignore.

 

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 10.03.2026

  Development  

## Matrix vs. CKEditor in Craft CMS — When to Use Which

 

Matrix or CKEditor? The answer depends on one thing: is your editor designing a page or writing a document. Here's how I decide on every project.

 

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 09.03.2026

  Development  

## Datastar vs. Alpine/HTMX — Why Datastar Is the Better Fit for Craft CMS

 

Discover why Datastar delivers cleaner state management, fewer edge-cases, and a more scalable architecture for Craft CMS — and how it solves problems that Alpine/HTMX can’t.

 

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 23.01.2026

  Opinion  

## Craft CMS & Hypermedia: How Agencies Build Less and Deliver More

 

Agencies don't lose projects to bad code — they lose them to accumulated complexity. Here's why a hypermedia-first approach with Craft CMS and Datastar keeps projects fast to build, easy to maintain, and free from framework lock-in.

 

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 15.01.2026

  Opinion  

## Why I Prefer Datastar Over Vue + GraphQL for Most Craft CMS Projects

 

Datastar gives me the speed and simplicity I need for most projects — without the overhead of a full frontend framework. Here’s why I often skip Vue + GraphQL.

 

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 03.12.2025

  Community  

## How Craft CMS Powers High-Scalability Multi-Site Setups (70+ Sites) — Fredmansky

 

This German-language case study showcases how an agency runs more than **70 websites** from a single Craft CMS instance—high-scalability, multi-site management, streamlined content workflows, and impressive performance engineering included. A must-read if you’re building anything large, complex, or multi-brand.

 

 [Read more  ](https://fredmansky.at/a/craft-cms-meets-high-scalability) 

 

 

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