Hotwire

I was reading the source of the Turbo library and came across following code in link_click_observer.ts, which executes whenever the session starts (when the page loads) and Turbo starts observing the links and forms: start() { if (!this.started) { addEventListener("click", this.clickCaptured, true) this.started = true } } clickCaptured

I spent the last night reading up on the Turbo Drive, a part of Hotwire front-end framework that Rails 7 ships with. The core value proposition of Hotwire is that all the logic lives on the server, and the browser deals just with the final HTML. This post tries to

This post introduces Hotwire, the suite of front-end frameworks shipped with Rails 7. It starts with a brief overview of the existing approaches to building web applications, introduces Hotwire, and wraps up with a short description of the different sub-frameworks that make Hotwire. We’ll also see how these frameworks