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Comparing StimulusReflex and Hotwire Over the past few posts we’ve been talking about Reactive Rails and our experiences with Hotwire and StimulusReflex. If you’d like some detail, you can catch up: Reactive Rails In Context Reactive Rails From Bare Bones Reactive Rails:...
A Brief Study of Hotwire We continue our exploration of Reactive Rails tools with Hotwire. This is the fourth post in the series–if you need to catch up, you can: Reactive Rails In Context Reactive Rails From Bare Bones Reactive Rails: StimulusReflex Reactive Rails: Hotwire...
A Brief Study of StimulusReflex This post continues our exploration of Reactive Rails tools with StimulusReflex(SR) and its underlying libraries CableReady(CR) and Stimulus. This is the third post in the series–if you need to catch up you can: Reactive Rails In Context Reactive...
Reactive Rails: Bare Bones Chat Introduction This is the second article in a five-part series on Reactive Rails. In the first post we wrote a brief primer noting the history that brought us to these notions of Reactive Rails. In this post, we’ll build the barest of applications–a base from...
Reactive Rails In Context At Flagrant, we recently began designing a chat-centered product. As we were reaching for React, Basecamp dropped hotwire. This gave us pause–by and large, React includes a lot of overhead, and some members of the team make an unpleasant face when React gets...
An Experience Report Webpacker is the main line replacement for Sprockets and the Asset Pipeline, as of Rails 6. Webpacker wraps the webpack JavaScript module bundler such that it can be simply used by a Rails application, consistent with the current common practices of JavaScript...