Week 29 - Ruby Friends Hotwire Native apps, Herb Linter & Formatter, and more!
Discover the latest Hotwire insights, tutorials, and releases in this week edition of Hotwire Weekly!
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Welcome to another, slightly shorter, issue of Hotwire Weekly! Happy reading! 🚀✨
📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos
Hotwire Native Live: Starting a New App, Ruby Friends - In this episode of Hotwire Native Live Joe Masilotti begins building the RubyFriends iOS and Android apps with Hotwire Native. He walks through project setup, integration with the existing Rails backend, and adapting authentication via path configuration.
Remote Ruby: Soham Parekh, Turbo Frames and AI Antics - Chris Oliver and Andrew Mason focus on how Turbo Frames power real-time emoji reactions in Rails apps, and more!
Click to reveal feature with Tailwind CSS - Rails Designer shares a clever CSS-only pattern for toggling sensitive content (e.g. API keys) visibility using a hidden checkbox and Tailwind's peer-checked utility.
Tailwind: Unstyled, accessible UI primitives - Adam Wahtan shared that unstyled, accessible UI primitives like dropdowns, dialogs, tabs, and more, that work anywhere, with no framework, are coming very soon to Tailwind Plus.
RailsConf 2025 Recap: Introducing the Herb Linter, Formatter, and a Vision for the Future of Rails Views - Marco Roth summarized his RailsConf talk, in which he introduced Herb v0.4.0 with a the new Herb Linter, a Herb Formatter early preview, and improved LSP support for .html.erb files. He also shared a multi-stage vision for ReActionView, a modern, reactive future for Rails views.
🧰 Libraries and Tools
decor - UI Components for Ruby on Rails.
Learn Hotwire - The most comprehensive course on Turbo, Stimulus, and Hotwire Native.
🎉 Releases
herb v0.4.1 - Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling.
view_component v4.0.0.rc3 - A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
view_component_reflex v3.3.16 - Allow Stimulus Reflexes in a view component.
propshaft v1.2.1 - Modern Rails Asset Pipeline.
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