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Refactor legacy jQuery spaghetti into a clean, testable Stimulus controller with explicit targets and lifecycle hooks.

Reflections on the hidden cost of prototyping in software — when quick experiments become permanent technical debt.

Use Stimulus.js with Rails UJS to delete records interactively and remove rows from the DOM without a page reload.

Load slow third-party API data asynchronously in Rails using Stimulus, ActionCable, and ActiveJob.

Track navigation history in a Rails PWA using a Stimulus controller and the service worker cache for offline breadcrumbs.

Fetch JSON from a Rails API endpoint inside a Stimulus controller and render the response using a client-side template.

Subscribe to multiple ActionCable channels dynamically from a single Stimulus.js controller.

Add PWA capabilities to any Rails app with minimal setup — web manifest, service worker, and offline support.

Use Stimulus.js to manage ActionCable connections in your interactive web app.

Build a live-preview markdown editor in Rails with Stimulus.js, achieving the same result as a Vue.js component.