Week 14 - Hotwire Starter Kit for Laravel, new Hotwire Native App, and more!
This week, we explore Hotwire insights from Tropical on Rails and new tools for Laravel and Rails.
Welcome to Hotwire Weekly!
Welcome to another issue of Hotwire Weekly! Happy reading! 🚀✨
Tropical on Rails just wrapped in São Paulo and there were a few Hotwire-adjecent talks:
- Keynote: Startups On Rails 2025 - Irina Nazarova
- Hotwire meets The Platform™: a new way to build PWAs relying on native HTML APIs - Edigleysson Silva
- The Great Mobile Hack: Hotwire Native - Daniel Medina
- From React to Hotwire, the right path - Jackson Pires
- Defying Front-End Inertia: Inertia.js on Rails - Svyatoslav Kryukov
- Keynote: Hotwire Demystified - Chris Oliver
📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos
Hotwire Starter Kit for Laravel - Tony Messias announced a Hotwire Starter Kit for Laravel and published a YouTube video showcasing it. It uses Tailwind CSS Laravel, Importmap Laravel, Stimulus Laravel, Hotreload, and daisyUI.
Hanami Assets - Brooke Kuhlmann provides an in-depth guide to managing assets within Hanami applications, covering topics such as Asset Structure, Configuration, Entry Points and Bundles and more.
Beyond translations in Stimulus: formatting dates, time and currency - Rails Designer explores advanced techniques for managing translations in Stimulus applications, emphasizing dynamic content and locale switching.
Component Partials in Rails - Dom Christie explores advanced techniques for rendering partials and collections in Rails applications. He illustrates how to use the to_partial_path method within custom Ruby objects to dynamically determine which partial to render.
Rails 8’s Propshaft, A Sprockets’ quiet replacement? - Trésor Bireke explains Propshaft, the default asset pipeline in Rails 8 designed to simplify and speed up asset management compared to its predecessor, Sprockets.
New Open Source Hotwire Native iOS App - Marco Roth announced at Tropical on Rails that they released a new Open Source Hotwire Native iOS App for RubyEvents.org. You can check out the repo on GitHub.
RubyUI v1.0 released - RubyUI is a set of reusable copy-and-paste Components Ruby and Rails applications. They just released v1.0.
🎉 Releases
symfony/ux v2.24.0 - A JavaScript ecosystem for Symfony built on Stimulus.
hotwire-native-bridge v1.2.1 - Web library for building Bridge Components in Hotwire Native apps.
tailwindcss-rails v4.2.2 - Integrate Tailwind CSS with the asset pipeline in Rails.
tailwindcss-ruby v4.1.3 - A self-contained tailwindcss executable.
phlex v2.2.1 - Object-oriented views in Ruby.
phlex-rails v2.2.0 - Phlex for Rails.
nitro_kit v0.6.0 - A good-to-go UI kit for Ruby on Rails.
proscenium v0.19.0.beta7 - Modern client-side development for Rails.
hot-glue v0.6.16 - Rails scaffold building companion for Turbo-Rails and Hotwire.
marten-turbo v0.3.0 - Turbo for the Marten Framework.
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