Modern JavaScript frontends offer seamless navigation, elegant transitions, stateful components, offline caches, and many other features. However, managing these complex frontends can be challenging and time-consuming.

Unpoly is a progressive enhancement library for HTML, which leverages AJAX calls to bring the state back to the server side while still delivering a rich client-side interface. By leveraging a few attributes and some HTTP headers, Unpoly simplifies front-end development without sacrificing end user comfort.

The talk will walk through a sample application built with Jakarta MVC framework and almost no javascript demonstrating the power and simplicity that Unpoly may bring to your frontend.