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I’d like to see a comparison with pjax as well: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

comment by captn3m0 · 2026-03-07 · in Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies

…proponents of a technique they called PJAX which is actually pretty similar to how HTMX works: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax My hunch is that over time it became harder and harder for them to hire new frontend developers who…

comment by simonw · 2025-08-05 · in Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

…over XHR instead of an iframe and uses pushState by default to keep the back button working. [1]: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

comment by jdp · 2024-02-19 · in Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML

Order as I remember it: Github initially used pjax, https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax , (maybe "invented" by defunkt?) which I believe was the precursor to turbolinks, https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks , which was the precursor…

comment by theIV · 2023-04-07 · in Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

> AFAIK that's not actually theirs but: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax Check out https://api.github.com/users/defunkt : > "id": 2 pjax was written by a GitHub founder for use in github.com.

comment by semiquaver · 2022-05-22 · in The balance has shifted away from SPAs

Ah, AFAIK that's not actually theirs but: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax (although I guess they rewrote it in TS, unless that's a different project floating around?), from which Turbolinks took its inspiration as a Rails-native…

comment by msbarnett · 2022-05-21 · in The balance has shifted away from SPAs

…- - [keymaster](https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster) - - [jquery-pjax](https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax) - - [github-dark](https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark) -- [0]: https://github.com/ovity/octotree/commit/c8010

comment by jlgaddis · 2020-10-31 · in Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code

…link, there is now way to replace just a portion of the page. pjax would be a better OG similarity: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

comment by thrownaway954 · 2020-08-24 · in A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax and https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks

comment by mkurz · 2020-05-28 · in Htmx – high power tools for HTML

…decade old at this point, dirt simple, and easily handles re-binding event handlers. Check it out: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax Turbolinks is a more contemporary library that does much the same. It doesn't need to be complicated.

comment by the_gastropod · 2020-02-10 · in Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps

How does this compare to PJAX : https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax ?

comment by simula67 · 2018-06-12 · in Structured Page Fragments by YouTube (2017)

…Github, Gerrit etc and I have to say, once you started using Github, there is no going back [1] https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax When a Github user clicks on a link, it is converted to an XHR request and then only the part of the…

comment by simula67 · 2018-06-05 · in Mailing lists vs Github

…scratch. Heh, I'd have been better off not buying in so early on. As a stop-gap, I'm using pjax. ( https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax ) My plan is after stuff is solid and in production and the product/service/business is moving…

comment by git-pull · 2017-12-24 · in Vue.js vs. React: what happened in 2017

Just to be pedantic: pjax is nearly 7 years old. https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax/commit/3efcc3c968c18c...

comment by the_gastropod · 2017-12-12 · in Turbolinks: SPA-like Experience without the SPA-framework Hassle

…JavaScript on top of server rendered views. Ajax works great with server side rendering, see Pjax https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax or Intercooler http://intercoolerjs.org/ The server is rendering JSON anyway, more or less just as…

comment by bigmanwalter · 2017-08-22 · in Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative

It's no longer cool on HN to use it, but jQuery-Pjax ( https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax ) solved this problem years ago in a minimally intrusive way. I build all my projects with it. It's the only SPA framework that allows for full…

comment by bigmanwalter · 2016-12-18 · in JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017

…or supported that format or converted or whatever (not c2 but the federated wiki stuff). [1]: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

comment by agentgt · 2016-10-29 · in WikiWikiWeb is back online

…concept is new to me. I've skimmed over it. So, everyone is saying turbolink is just like pjax: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax There is also something interesting I've seen before in Java & Scala. It will run your code and render…

comment by kevindeasis · 2016-01-02 · in Instant Web Application

Sounds like a fresh approach to PJAX ( https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax )

comment by pwenzel · 2015-12-04 · in Structured Page Fragments by YouTube

fixed link: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

comment by rpedela · 2014-05-27 · in Googlebot's recent improvements might revolutionize web development

…The better way, preferred: https://github.com/browserstate/history.js or https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax... . not sure which is better to be honest. Feel free to chime in.

comment by xpose2000 · 2014-05-27 · in Googlebot's recent improvements might revolutionize web development

Does this mean Googlebot can crawl pjax pages? https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

comment by dallen33 · 2014-05-23 · in Understanding web pages better

…that may mean you also need to generate static pages for bot consumption (pjax can be useful here https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax ).

comment by espeed · 2014-05-23 · in A Comparison of Go Web Frameworks

…app that updates the browser URL bar using pushState. Both approaches also degrade nicely. [1] https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

comment by toddmorey · 2014-03-08 · in InstantClick 3.0 Released

…sites crawlable is also possible with libraries like https://github.com/minddust/jquery-pjaxr and https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax . Plus the push state has the advantage of "real" urls.

comment by commanderj · 2013-10-07 · in Javascript apps can be fully crawlable

…in Ratchet http://maker.github.io/ratchet/#push ). This in turn is inspired by jquery-pjax ( https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax ) Explained in short - there should be some way to fetch the HTML for a "new page" replacing the older page…

comment by Wolfr_ · 2013-08-18 · in An open source HTML/CSS framework for prototyping native touch applications

Anyone interested in something like this should also check out PJAX. Push State and AJAX. https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax This is what GitHub uses between tabs on its Pull Requests page. I love how simple the implementation is. Your…

comment by seanconaty · 2013-04-19 · in We've Open-sourced Rendr

"For browsers that don't support pushState pjax fully degrades." Source: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax Wouldn't that suggest that any search-engines wouldn't have an issue indexing your site if you implement things correctly?

comment by uptown · 2013-01-04 · in Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby

Nice concept, but I would definitely consider using something like PJAX ( https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax ) in place of the javascript loading already in place. Also, text is really tiny on my iPhone.

comment by pwenzel · 2012-10-28 · in Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress

It's part of [pjax]( https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax ). pjax works by returning all content stuffed in a single node, which then updates the current page with those contents. It fire's Google Analytics updates, etc. It can also…

comment by dpcx · 2012-09-26 · in Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax)

…AJAX and updates the browser history using `pushState`. This is an alternative to the PJAX library: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax Use either if you have an irrational aversion to page reloads. Snark aside - jQuery Mobile uses a…

comment by pygorex · 2012-06-03 · in Show HN: Joconut - Smart PJAX jQuery plugin in 1kb

…site. Best solution is to have both (JSON and static) representations or use something like pjax https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax .

comment by chadhietala · 2012-05-30 · in It's About The Hashbangs

There's a jQuery plugin for this: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax Backbone.js has support for pushState as well.

comment by Gigablah · 2012-02-27 · in Create Crawlable, Link-Friendly AJAX Websites Using pushState()

…and if you're not using Rails there's a version dependent on jQuery https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax .

comment by Jarred · 2012-02-20 · in Do browsers parse javascript on every page load?

…want to? 2) pjax uses pushState to preserve links and back button behavior. Here is the pjax code: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax And here is a gist in Flask/Python which shows conditionally including the layout:…

comment by irahul · 2012-02-17 · in How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI