biff.datastar, biff.ring

A couple more Biff 2 libraries are out the door:

• biff.datastar: the dumbest/awesomest possible way to make a reactive, server-side-rendered web app. Over the past several years I haven't put much priority on making it easy to make fancy reactive/real-time/collaborative UIs since my UI needs are typically pretty simple. But this architecture is actually really nice even when you don't need the fancy stuff.

• biff.ring: mostly some Biff-related plumbing code. I think the defroute macro is pretty nice. There's a cool wrap-csrf-protection middleware that doesn't use tokens.

The last "big" Biff 2 library I need to fix up and release will be biff.tasks, the one for all the CLI tasks. Other than that there's biff.authentication, the email-powered authentication module thing (now with a default sign-in form included) and a few other doodads. And then a starter app. And some documentation that ties all the libraries together, not just documentation for the individual libraries (which I've been writing as I go).

I'm still shooting to have all that released before the conj, which is... coming up. On the bright side, in the window of time between writing the first draft of this post and sending it out, I've already finished editing the biff.tasks code and only need to write the documentation. So I'd say we're well on our way.