Platform VS intercooler-js

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Platform

Qbix Platform for powering Social Apps (http://qbix.com/platform) (by Qbix)
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Platform intercooler-js
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91 4,727
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9.9 0.0
4 days ago over 1 year ago
JavaScript HTML
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 MIT License
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Platform

Posts with mentions or reviews of Platform. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-16.
  • Tech giants are hijacking the internet
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2023
    Open, permissionless networks beat closed, proprietary ones once they are good enough.

    I spent 10 years and over $1 million from my company’s revenues to build an open source social operating system to power pretty much all the applications you’d want:

    https://qbix.com

    Hope it helps! About to release v2.0 on GitHub

    https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

    (And 5 years ago spun off https://intercoin.org/applications — we are still in the development stage on that one).

  • Cult of the Dead Cow Wants to Save Internet Privacy with New Encryption Protocol
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2023
    You might also like our platform that we’ve been building for 12 years and are preparing to launch:

    https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

  • Google vs. the Open Web
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023
    We have been doing it! Join us!

    It isn’t perfect but we are ahead of most others (Mastodon, Matrix). We have spent TWELVE YEARS building the free, permissionless open source platform for anyone to assemble and host their own community software with all the features of Facebook/Twitter/TikTok for their own community:

    https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

    We are about to roll out version 2.0 — I have never done this before but I would like to invite whoever wants to learn about it or build on it, to a Zoom webinar where I will demo anything and answer any questions. The next Webinar will take place on our own platform — no Calendly, no Zoom, no Google, just the free open Web.

    Anyway, sign up here if you want. Will do it every Sunday August:

    https://calendly.com/qbix/qbix-2-0-platform-demo

  • WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs in the browser
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2023
  • Companies must stop using Google Analytics
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023
    This is true not just for analytics but pretty much all features.

    Imagine you are a great speaker and instructir and have an audience. Right now you GIFT it to YouTube, Twitter, etc. and they monetize it for you, give you a ting percentage, and even constantly direct your audience to competitors and other distractions. In fact YouTube even sells an option to advertise your videos on your competitor’s videos!

    I say — opt out. Run your own everything! It’s hard to build an open-source alternative that is good enough (no, Mastodon and Bluesky aren’t — yet).

    Which is why (shameless plug warning) I spent 12 years and $1 million dollars with my team to build it. https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

    Use it — as 1 of hundreds of features, you can have your own analytics on your own database on your own community site. The other features are here: https://qbix.com/features.pdf

  • PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2023
    I hope they don't do it.

    I've had a similar situation with PHP, where we had written quite a large engine (https://github.com/Qbix/Platform) with many features (https://qbix.com/features.pdf) . It took advantage of the fact that PHP isolated each script and gave it its own global variables, etc. In fact, much of the request handling did stuff like this:

      Q_Request::requireFields(['a', 'b', 'c']);
  • The Fear of Shipping
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2023
    I am the king of this. It has been 12 years and we had 6 million users — and we still have yet to ship Groups for Android for example.

    Oh wait I have you one better — it has been 12 years and https://github.com/Qbix/Platform is only now almost ready to be released, as v2.0

    Sure we “ship” it all the time, on github. We even released v1.0 but we didn’t announce it

    People who discover https://qbix.com are shocked that there is a decentralized open source alternative platform to Facebook and Twitter that is far more full-featured than Mastodon, Bluesky or even Matrix and they never heard of it.

    Well… the problem is that I picked a very complex space, one where no one got this far except for billion-dollar companies. People kept expecting everything to be real-time and rock-solid, and even when we finally got that done after many years, they still complain it “doesn’t look as good as Twitter”.

    Every time I shipped half-baked stuff, it didn’t actually take off. Now, I believe it WOULD have taken off if it had a low demand surface area (eg Bitcoin just stores value and transfers it, period). But I tend to build stuff that is similar to what people use EVERY DAY, and that kind of stuff accrued lots of features.

    Oh yeah my other project https://intercoin.org blockchain platform took 5 years to create. During that time we went from a crypto winter to a super bull market in crypto to another winter with super bear skepticism on HN.

    On HN we knee-jerk get lumped in with stuff that isn’t even blockchain, like FTX or Binance, or ridiculous shitcoins that have no utility at all.

    Our stuff is FREE AND OPEN SOURCE and you use it if you want, or don’t. Before complaining that it even exists to help people for free, or calling it a scam, at least click the link to https://github.com/Intercoin

    A word about regulations, because you shouldn’t “just ship” in violation of laws (unless you’re Uber or AirBNB lol). Even though we raised money in an ICO pursuant to Reg D and Reg S exemotions, filed Form D with the SEC, got people who worked at the SEC as active advisors, complied with laws in multiple other jurisdictions, innovated in many areas of securities law, and carefully developed tokens to fit the No-Action letters grantsd to projects like PocketFullOfQuarters, people on HN just assume that we are like most of the others who didn’t treat their tokens as securities. Which is understandable. (I am not admitting the token ARE securities, this is a matter of opinion that a judge would determine, merely that we didn’t want to take the chance that the original transactions weren’t securities transactions.)

    Btw besides securities there is also this FATCA, FINCEN and other stuff that many startups here should read even if they aren’t making web3 or crypto projects, but ARE dealing with money and payouts to people on their platform: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20...

  • Show HN: A typical weekend of coding for me, with links to commits on GitHub
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2023
    https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/commit/704ee677a6937f0b20a26d6a3c56f6aff812ab47

    2. Implemented stream.ephemeral(payload) that can be sent to any stream now, and whole system of ephemeral is now working parallel to messages. Unlike messages, ephemeral isn't saved to the database, doesn't trigger notifications for subscribers, and the order doesn't matter. It's for things like "Typing..." indicators and other temporary things. Ephemeral is like UDP while Messages is like TCP.

  • Go with PHP
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2023
    For a framework that is radically different but also PHP-native (since PHP 5), would you like to spend an hour playing with https://github.com/Qbix/Platform ?

    If you do, please share your experience in a comment. I’d love to hear it. I architected this framework over the last decade :)

  • The WAR on end-to-end encryption is here, and we’re losing it
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2023
    Author here. Happy to see this went viral.

    I have spent 12 years and 1 million dollars to date (no exaggeration) on a project to hopefully help people get a viable alternative to the Big Tech, and have choice where to host the infrastructure they typically expect from Facebook, Twitter, Telegram etc. It’s open source and it’s the only way you can make it expensive to backdoor everyone in bulk, or shut down a platform altogether:

    https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

    If you spend an afternoon playing with, I think you’ll feel like you’re discovering superpowers (like Batman or Iron man or something). It’s free to use. We’re launching https://qbix.com/ecosystem soon, with courses and certification so anyone who wants to learn, click on my profile and email me.

    And if you like what we do and you’re thinking of supporting us with $100 or more, feel free to do it here… November 5 we are launching, until then you can voluntarily put a “no-obligation” contribution: https://wefunder.com/Qbix

intercooler-js

Posts with mentions or reviews of intercooler-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-12.
  • Htmx and the Rule of Least Power
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2024
    An early version of Htmx was in fact based on jQuery (https://intercoolerjs.org).
  • Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
    I used HTMX since the intercooler days [0] but the stuff you can make is rather limited. Also you still need the JS to deal with a11y things like expanded state (or hyperscript, apparently).

    If you have a lot of components to implement, everything requires thinking.

    I really love it for simple applications though. Resist implementing a complicated menu, live notifications, an editable data-table and such non-web-native things and you can create the fastest CRUD app ever.

    And you will need another client, but that's not really an issue if your view model does not contain non-public data (it shouldn't), as you can convert it to JSON at the same endpoint and call it an API.

    [0]: https://intercoolerjs.org/

  • Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    to an extent, there was `jQuery.get` but it wasn't tightly integrated with HTML

    the original version of htmx was intercooler.js:

    https://intercoolerjs.org

    released in 2013, and that version depended on jQuery

  • Writing JavaScript without a build system
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2023
  • We're breaking up with JavaScript front ends
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2022
  • Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
    34 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022
    You asked for it:

    https://htmx.org

    https://hyperscript.org

    I hated angular when it first came out and couldn't believe what insanity people were willing to come up with, so long as it came from google. (e.g. GWT) I created https://intercoolerjs.org out of frustration with that, and the lack of progress in HTML/hypermedia in general, so I could build a web application I was working on (https://leaddyno.com, since sold).

    When covid hit I took a look back at intercooler and decided that it was really two things: HTML++ and a scripting language, so I split it up into htmx, focused just on the hypermedia angle, and hyperscript, the scripting language I wanted for the web (derived from HyperTalk, and old scripting language from HyperCard on the mac).

    I know use them both professionally (email me if you want to use them too.)

  • Stop submitting to social conformity and use your brain instead
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2021
  • Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
    264 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021
    I created intercooler.js in 2013 so I could do AJAX in HTML:

    https://intercoolerjs.org

    Last year I removed the jquery dependency and cleaned it up based on a lot of lessons that I learned, renaming it to hmtx:

    https://htmx.org

    Same idea: extends/complete HTML as a hypertext so you can build more advanced UI within the original hypermedia web model, and cleaner implementation.

    Part of that cleanup involved me pulling out some functionality around events and a proto-scripting language (ic-action), and I enjoy programming languages, so I created a front end scripting language to fill that need:

    https://hyperscript.org

    It's based on HyperTalk and has a lot of domain specific features for lightweight front end scripting, kind of a jQuery or AlpineJS alternative.

  • Ask HN: I feel my career is at a dead end. Any advice on what could I do?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2021
    This is my experience, and your mileage may vary:

    Multiple times in my coding career I have felt stalled and/or like I was regressing.

    Early on, I worked on a programming language, gosu (https://gosu-lang.github.io/) which ended up not really going anywhere. Once the work on it was done, I returned to more mundane web programming for a while. A long while after that, and unexpectedly, I turned a jQuery function I was noodling on into intercooler.js (https://intercoolerjs.org/). After a year of that I returned to mundane web programming for quite a while. Unexpectedly, a year ago, the country shut down. I was at home and decided to see if I could remove the jQuery dependency in intercooler.js, and so created htmx (https://htmx.org/). When creating htmx and removing some attribute/functionality, I realized that a small programming language would be the ideal replacement, so I created hyperscript: https://hyperscript.org/. I had not expected to work on a programming language again, but now I am.

    So my career has been some very exciting technical projects punctuating long stretches of pretty basic web development, where the most exciting thing is me wondering if I can figure out what the deuce is wrong with my CSS. My takeaway here, at least in my career, is that patience is a virtue, and the interesting stuff tends to come up at irregular intervals and in unexpected moments and ways.

  • HTML over-the-wire is the future of Web Development
    11 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2021
    htmx is the successor to intercooler.js. It swaps parts of the page, not the whole page like Turbolinks. htmx allows you to access 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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Platform and intercooler-js you can also consider the following projects:

thegreatsuspender-notrack - A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory, privacy-oriented with no analytics tracking.

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

opensnitch - OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.

morphdom - Fast and lightweight DOM diffing/patching (no virtual DOM needed)

activitypub

html-over-the-wire - HTML over the wire: List of frameworks which receive HTML snippets from the server.

NanoCore - An adblocker

vaku - vaku extends the vault api & cli

wordpress-playground - Run WordPress in the browser via WebAssembly PHP

Tabula - Extract tables from PDF files

v2os - V2_OS - The V2_ Operating System. 100% 32 bit assembly code

GoJS, a JavaScript Library for HTML Diagrams - JavaScript diagramming library for interactive flowcharts, org charts, design tools, planning tools, visual languages.