announcements 2026-09-10

https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff: full stack web framework. This is pretty much a full rewrite which I've been working on for 6 months or 2 years depending on how you count it. Some major changes from Biff 1.x: โ€ข SQLite is the default database. โ€ข Datastar is used for server-side rendering. โ€ข Introduces biff.graph and biff.fx, two libraries that both help structure your application logic. โ€ข The monolithic com.biffweb namespace has been split into a bunch of independent libraries which makes it easier to swap out various parts. e.g. using a non-default database is much less work now. Some more commentary in the https://biffweb.com/p/biff2-released/. See also #C013Y4VG20J.

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Congrats! ๐ŸŽ‰

Contratulations Jabob. Looking forward to upgrading my project, and learning the new patterns and Datastar!

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You may have had me at Datastar. That's my shiny thing!

Datastar's pretty cool! I've been thinking about trying out stardust too / making a biff DB adapter for it.