Welcome to Hotwire Weekly!

Welcome to another issue of Hotwire Weekly! Happy reading! 🚀✨

📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos

Drifting Ruby: Turbo Permanent - Dave Kimura published a new video for Drifting Ruby about the data-turbo-permanent attribute and how it can help with solving some common problems with broadcasting refreshes and page morphs.

Building optimistic UI in Rails powered by Turbo - Rails Designer explains how to use Turbo’s client-side visits for snappy optimistic feedback in Rails apps without heavy JavaScript.

Getting Started with Vite on Rails - Julio Lucero on the FastRuby.io blog shows how to set up Vite Rails for fast builds and hot module replacement while still embracing the Hotwire-approach.

CSS Counters: auto-update list numbers without JavaScript - Rails Designer demonstrates native CSS counters to automate list and step numbering in Hotwire UIs without extra markup.

A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: Where Does Everything Come From? - Will Larry on the thoughtbot blog started a series about his learnings coming in to the Rails world as a JavaScript developer.

Hotwire Native deep dive: In-app purchases on iOS - Joe Masilotti walks through implementing in-app purchases in Hotwire Native apps with Rails, covering receipt validation, restoring purchases, and handling product delivery.

Hotwire Club: Turbo Frames - Loading Spinner - Julian Rubisch published a new challange for The Hotwire Club about Loading Spinners and Turbo Frames.

Ruby Community Conference 2026 returns to Cracow, March 12–14 - There are going to be Hotwire-related sessions, including the Hotwire Native: Build Mobile Apps the Rails Way and Building a Live Kanban Board with Hotwire and Rails workshops and a talk on Herb and ReActionView. Get your ticket here.

🧰 Libraries and Tools

Maquina Components - UI components for Rails inspired by shadcn/ui.

🎉 Releases

rails v8.1.2 - Full-stack Web Framework.

lexxy v0.7.3.beta - A modern rich text editor for Rails.

herb v0.8.9 - Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling.

phlex v2.4.0 - Build HTML, SVG and CSV views with Ruby classes.

phlex-rails v2.4.0 - Phlex in Rails.

anycable v1.6.9-pre.1 - Realtime server for reliable two-way communication to power-up any backend.

rails_icons v1.6.0 - Add any icon library to a Rails app.

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