Ben Croker

@bencroker
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Craft CMS plugin developer, builder of shiny tools;
modern day drifter, adventurous fool.
Personalhttps://bencroker.com
Workhttps://putyourlightson.com
Playhttps://www.craftcodingchallenge.com
Ben CrokerMay 1, 2025
The Blitz Hints utility, first introduced three years ago, has been retired in version 5.10.0. #CraftCMS
https://putyourlightson.com/articles/one-last-hint-eager-load-all-the-things
One Last Hint: Eager-Load All the Things

The Blitz Hints utility, first introduced three years ago, has been retired in 5.10.0.

PutYourLightsOn
Ben CrokerApr 4, 2025
Added a videos page to the Datastar site – embedding lots of YouTube videos makes page loads extremely slow, so guess what we’re doing instead... using `data-on-click` to only load the player when thumbnails are clicked.
Dogfooding is the best 🚀
https://data-star.dev/videos
Videos

A day without a good video is like a joke without a punchline—pointless.

Datastar
Ben CrokerMar 30, 2025

Datastar v1.0.0-beta.11 adds more fine-grained wildcard support (* to match a single path segment, ** to match multiple path segments).

The beta phase is now officially unofficially over, and the next release should be v1.0.0 🚀

https://github.com/starfederation/datastar/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.11

Release v1.0.0-beta.11 · starfederation/datastar

This release adds wildcard support to data-on-signals-change-*, data-persist, @setAll and @toggleAll using * to match a single path segment and ** to match multiple path segments. Note that this do...

GitHub
Ben CrokerMar 3, 2025

📺 In which we discuss Datastar beta 8, immutability, and event sourcing.

🎧 Also available on the podcast players.

https://youtu.be/OV6xS865pF0

Immutability & Event Sourcing

YouTube
Ben CrokerFeb 25, 2025
In case you missed last week’s @craftquest_io livestream in which I introduced and showed real-time demos using #CraftCMS, the recording is now online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjU1st-52g
Intro to Datastar (and Craft CMS)

YouTube
Ben CrokerFeb 19, 2025
Here’s a teaser of something I’m going to demo in tomorrow’s @craftquest_io livestream. I think you’ll want to see it!
#CraftCMS
https://craftquest.io/livestreams
CraftQuest Casual 07

CraftQuest
Ben CrokerFeb 19, 2025
I sat down with Lazarus @all__hype to discuss the real-time chat application that he built, PHP quirks, and getting to grips with Datastar.
(Also available on the podcast players.)
#datastar #php #hyperscript #pubsub
https://youtu.be/DTURjpV2ZHQ
Getting to grips with Datastar

YouTube
Ben CrokerFeb 18, 2025
CraftQuestFeb 18, 2025
Come learn about Datastar, a hypermedia framework that helps you build reactive web apps, with guest Ben Croker. Noon eastern on Thursday 2/20! 🚀 https://buff.ly/2CNfEIF
CraftQuest Casual 07

CraftQuest
Ben CrokerFeb 11, 2025
What happened when we injected nitrous into the engine, DOM morphing strategies, pub/sub messaging systems and NATS.
#datastar #dom #hyperscript #nats
https://youtu.be/zu92P9wyUfI
Tuning the engine; Idiomorph; Pub/Sub; NATS

YouTube
Ben CrokerFeb 5, 2025
We are back on the tube, discussing beta 3, Datastar as a full-stack framework, and CQRS.
You can find us on the podcast players, too. #datastar
https://youtu.be/a6ByFsFCN0c
Beta 3; Full-stack framework; CQRS

YouTube