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Yeah, the channel / category pages are all "live patched" generally, which means the user can navigate around without incurring a full HTTP roundtrip. Some pages like the account settings are "dumb views" though and do not offer the same advantages.

Thanks for the offer to be on the podcast, I'll check it out!

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I've used a similar technique with HTMX[1]. General navigation just patches the main "content" section, but actions where it's necessary to replace the entire page (e.g. login/logout) just do a full page "dumb" refresh.

[1] https://htmx.org

There's also a Clojure web setup based on htmx: https://whamtet.github.io/ctmx/

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