unpoly/unpoly

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Unpoly is a JavaScript library that adds progressive enhancement attributes to HTML, letting you build dynamic, SPA-like interfaces while keeping all rendering on the server. It works with any backend language or framework and gracefully degrades without JavaScript.

Use cases

• add dynamic page fragments to a server-rendered app without writing a JS frontend
• replace full page reloads with partial HTML updates
• build modals, popups, and tabs with plain HTML attributes
• migrate a legacy server-rendered app toward a more interactive UI incrementally
• use an html-over-the-wire approach instead of a client-side SPA framework
• handle form submissions and validation without full page reloads

When to choose

• your app is server-rendered and you want rich interactivity without a JS build pipeline or SPA framework
• you want graceful degradation when JavaScript is unavailable
• you use any backend (Rails, Django, PHP, etc.) and want framework-agnostic frontend enhancement
• you prefer hypermedia-driven architecture

When to avoid

• you need a fully client-side SPA with complex client state
• your team is committed to React/Vue-style component architectures
• you need offline-first or heavy client-side computation

Facets

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frontend-framework ssr templating middleware web-development frontend backend browser cross-platform progressive-enhancement html-over-the-wire hypermedia server-side-rendering unobtrusive-javascript nodejs

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