Rails’ use of flash messages is a great way to provide context for customer actions. If they delete an object, flashing a notice that the delete action succeeded, or perhaps failed, gives them more context to make the next decision. With HOTWire’s asynchronous nature, you don’t get those notifications in the same way, especially if […]
Category: ruby on rails
Stylizing ActionMailers with Maizzle
Maizzle can take your Tailwind theme and help your write beautiful transaction emails.
Stimulus.js & HOTWire Tutorial: Interactive Deletes
Interactive websites have that feeling of immediacy. Clicked links respond in milliseconds, and there is never a need to wait… Waiting for a remote record to delete, and then the whole page refresh afterwards can feel like an eternity in web’s modernity.
Rails PWAs using Turbo HHNPWA #7
What makes any web site a progressive web app? Two small pieces tell the browser to treat your web page as a progressive web app.
HOTWiring an existing Rails Monolith: Forms!
Let’s say your majestic monolith is looking for more interactivity, and you’ve picked up Turbo. What aspects of a Rails app change that may cause some headaches? Add Turbo, and then follow along! Forms First, you need to test all your forms. Turbo dramatically changes the behavior of each form. The biggest change you will […]
Lazy Loading Lots of Comments HOTWire Tutorial #5
As we continue in building out the HOTWire Hacker News Progressive Web App, it’s time to look at loading the comments. This is an interesting data problem, because each item has comments, and each comment has comments, and you can go recursively until you run out. The original HNWPA pushed all the comment loading into […]
Russian Doll Caching – Building HOTWire HNPWA #4
What if we can increase page load the speed by not duplicating work in the server rendering process?
Paginating Top Items – HOTWire HNPWA #3
If you look at the number of TopItems coming back from the API, you’ll see it’s much more than 30. How do you display all these items? Pagination! ActiveRecord has an offset method that tells the database where to start in the records it returns. If you don’t specify an offset, the database starts counting […]
Turbo Streaming Top Items – HOTWire HNPWA #2
Turbo Streaming is going to work best with ActiveRecord Models. The Hacker News model uses Item models, which can be stories, comments, jobs, polls, or poll options. In the first implementation, the Item was modeled to be as generic as the API dispensed. This time, stories and jobs will continue to be modeled as Item […]
HOTWire HNPWA #1: Setting up for Top Stories
Follow along as we build the HOTWire Hacker News Progressive Webapp, or HHNPWA. This will build on the lessons from the Hacker News Progressive Web App, and will leverage all the enhancements that come from Turbo. In the end, you can compare the two, and decide for yourself what works.