Home Assistant (home-assistant.io) is a massive beast. It can be overwhelming for a newcomer; it was for me. In this article, I want to describe the underlying model of Home Assistant, which is a good entry point for your home …
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Why Home Assistant
Last June, I spoke at Berlin Buzzwords. In all honesty, I rarely attend others’ talks for a variety of reasons: lack of time, lack of energy, no interest in the proposed subjects, etc. When I do, I go either for …
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Langchain4J Musings
I’m coming relatively late to the LLM party, but I rarely come very early in the hype cycle. For example, I never bought into blockchain, the solution still searching for problems to solve, nor in microservices, the latest in the …
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Summary of the AJAX Frameworks Comparison
In previous weeks, I’ve analyzed several libraries and frameworks that augment the client with AJAX capabilities. Vue.js Alpine.js HTMX Vaadin In this post, I’ll compare them across several axes. Analysis Frontend skills:Remember that I started this series from the point …
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Vaadin: Battery-Included Server-Side AJAX Framework
I’ve written a lot about Vaadin. I was so enthusiastic that I wrote the first book about it (besides the Book of Vaadin), its updated edition for Vaadin 7, and a companion website. Still, I’m amazed that so many people …
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Augmenting the client with HTMX
This article is part of a series comparing different ways to implement asynchronous requests on the client to augment the latter. So far, I described the process with Vue.js and Alpine.js. Both are similar from the developers’ point of view: …
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Augmenting the client with Alpine.js
This article is part of a series comparing different ways to implement asynchronous requests on the client, which is colloquially known as AJAX. I dedicated the previous post to Vue.js; I’ll dedicate this one to Alpine.js – not to be …
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Augmenting the client with Vue.js
In my previous article, I laid the ground to build upon; now is the time to start “for real”. I heard a lot of Vue.js. Additionally, a friend who transitioned from developer to manager told me good things about Vue, …
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Server-Side Rendering with Spring Boot
Understanding the shared steps in the project setup is crucial before delving into the specifics of each client-augmenting technology.
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A Short History of AJAX and SSR
My journey in programming began over two decades ago, a time when JavaScript was a far cry from its current state, and developers were primarily focused on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
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Health Check Response Format for HTTP APIs
I’m continuing my journey on getting more familiar with HTTP APIs by reading related RFCs.