Biff

Previously I wrote Understanding htmx which was meant to explain htmx conceptually, what the main tradeoffs are, and when you might want to use or not use it.

Last April I outlined some changes I had planned for Biff, which included making SQLite the default database, splitting the monolithic com.biffweb namespace into a bunch of independent libraries, using Datastar by default, introducing some new approaches…

I've just released biff.run, a very light clj-based task runner; and biff.tasks, a bunch of default CLI tasks that can be used in tools.deps projects.

I demonstrate how to provision a new Ubuntu server on DigitalOcean and deploy a hello-world Clojure web app to it with biff.tasks. biff.tasks

A couple more Biff 2 libraries are out the door: biff.datastar: the dumbest/awesomest possible way to make a reactive, server-side-rendered web app.

I've released two new Biff libraries, both database adapters: biff.sqlite and biff.xtdb.

I'm releasing another Biff 2 library: biff.fx.

As I wrote about previously, I've been working on splitting Biff up into a bunch of separate libraries and changing various things along the way.

I have for the past year or two been working on some large Biff changes, such as those discussed in Structuring large Clojure codebases with Biff and Biff support for XTDB v2 is in pre-release.

I've been working on/preparing for migrating Biff to XTDB v2 since that became generally available in June.

I've recently finished a year-long rewrite of the Yakread codebase and have released it under a source-available license.