Three years have passed since the genesis event on May 10, 2021 which I watched on TV from my living room. Today, as we mark this anniversary, I am not alone in reflecting on the incredible journey it has been - also in my personal development in this field of technology.

In this article a practical scenario is explored. Consider having a static website hosted on the Internet Computer (IC), and you wish to implement a view counter for each blog post. While this might appear straightforward to a traditional Web 2 developer, the question arises how this will be accomplished within Web 3 on the IC.

This is an announcement for a new starter kit: ic-alpinejs that I recently published on Github. An Alpine.js starter kit with minimal frontend code to access an Internet Computer backend canister.