Week 23 - Custom Path Configuration Properties, new action_text-trix gem, and more!
Discover the latest Hotwire insights, tutorials, and releases in this week edition of Hotwire Weekly!
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📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos
Handling missing frames in Turbo - Alessandro Rodi shows how to avoid Turbo's default Content missing error. You can intercept the turbo:frame-missing event in JavaScript to render fallback content, or handle it server-side in Rails by checking turbo_frame_request? and returning a matching frame partial.
Hotwire Native Live Episode 2: Bridge Components - Joe Masilotti dives into bridge components in episode #2 of Hotwire Native Live. He explains how bridge components let you trigger native UI (like buttons, modals, and more) via Stimulus and the JavaScript bridge.
Rails MCP Server: Enhanced Documentation Access - Mario Alberto Chávez released Rails MCP Server v1.2.0, which now also has support for Turbo and Stimulus docs.
How to Use the New action_text-trix Gem - Chris Oliver published a new episode on GoRails and highlights that Rails now ships the Trix editor separately via the action_text-trix gem and show how to use it.
Phlex on Rails video course - Brad Gessler launches a pre-release of his Phlex on Rails video course, teaching how to build Rails UIs with Phlex components.
Custom Path Configuration Properties in Hotwire Native iOS - Dom Christie explores how to extend Hotwire Native's path configuration beyond the default options. While the official docs list view context and presentation settings, they omit how to access custom properties in code.
How on Earth Do You Manage Forms with Turbo? - Matt Hood gave a talk at a recent Ruby Australia Meetup and the recording got published. He talks about managing forms with Turbo and Rails.
Drifting Ruby: Marksmith - Dave Kimura published a new episode on DriftingRuby and shows how to integrate Marksmith into Rails apps to support Markdown editing. Unlike ActionText, Marksmith works with plain text or blob columns and integrates with ActiveStorage for file uploads.
🧰 Libraries and Tools
anycable-laravel - AnyCable broadcasting adapter for Laravel.
turbo-docs-mcp-server - An MCP server to access up to date documentation for Turbo.
turbo-transition - A “minion” for Turbo-Frames and Streams.
🎉 Releases
turbo-rails v2.0.14 - Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app.
symfony/ux v2.26.0 and v2.26.1 - A JavaScript ecosystem for Symfony built using Stimulus.
phlex v2.3.1 - Phlex for Rails.
view_component v4.0.0.alpha6 - A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
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