Show HN: IntercoolerJs – A Declarative Ajax Framework

Hey All,

It isn't 100% complete yet, but I've decided to cut a 0.0.1 release for IntercoolerJS:

  http://intercoolerjs.org/

Intercooler is a Partial View Controller framework, where AJAX responses are HTML fragments (partials) that are swapped in for existing content, based roughly on the Basecamp 2 approach.

If anyone else is interested in working on or using the project, please let me know: there is still tons of interesting work to do (e.g. back-button/pushState() support)

I think that, for many apps, this might be a good way to get 90% of the UX advantages of a thick Javascript MVC framework, at a fraction of the complexity.

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dayum 12y ago ↗

Awesome! Why didn't someone think of this years ago?!

coffeecodecouch 12y ago ↗

This is really great, I imagine I'll be using it often. I do however feel a bit cheated seeing that the demo isn't actually AJAX.

carsongross 12y ago ↗

If you want to see actual ajax requests in flight, you can take a look at the rails demo app up on heroku:

http://intercoolerjs.herokuapp.com/

It's only running on one dyno, though, so it might be slow depending on traffic.

Thanks, that's what I was looking for!