conway-htmx

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conway-htmx

Backend rendered Conway's Game of Life with shared playing field. Streams changes to the frontend via HTMX-SSE.

Roadmap

1. Implementation (done)
2. ??? (todo)
3. Profit (todo)

Demo

Hosted Demo: https://stuff.985.at/htmx/conway/

To try it out on your machine, clone the repo and type go run .

Evolutionary Stages

1. First, there was no SSE and the frontend polled all cells twice a second. It was an absolutely unusable abomination with multi-second lag.
2. Introduce SSE. Lag was still phenomenally unbearable.
3. Use deflate to compress everything. Your browser has to support deflate now. Somehow that fixed things and now lag was still present but ok.
4. Optimize further by only updating the changed cells. This has the added benefit of making the lag variable (depending on how many cells changed). At least the average lag was brought down significantly.