Week 33 - Turbo Offline Support, CSS `@functions`, 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
Turbo PR #1427: Add support for (basic, cached on-visit) offline access using service workers - Rosa Gutiérrez opened a pull request for Turbo to include a new offline bundle (@hotwired/turbo/offline) with configurable caching strategies (networkFirst, cacheFirst, staleWhileRevalidate). This rollout gears up for Rosa's upcoming "Coming Soon: Offline Mode to Hotwire with Service Workers" talk at Rails World 2025.
Hotwire Native: Building Bridges - Dane Wilson demonstrates how to enhance your Hotwire Native iOS & Android apps by using Bridge Components. With Stimulus-powered bridge components on the web communicating with native counterparts (Swift or Kotlin). You can replace web UI elements like a "heart" button with fully native versions, while still following the HTML-first approach.
HTML Partials + Server Reducers: Self-assembling Ul components with embedded state - Kamil Chmielewski proposes rendering HTML fragments and pushing state transitions through “server-side reducers,” which maps neatly to Turbo/Hotwire’s HTML-over-the-wire model: think Turbo Streams/Frames delivering partials while controllers/actions function as reducers for predictable, JS-light interactivity.
5 Useful CSS functions using the new @function rule - Una Kravets highlights new ways to write cleaner, logic-driven CSS with custom functions like negation, opacity helpers, fluid typography, and responsive layouts, made possible by the upcoming CSS @function syntax in Chrome 139.
🧰 Libraries and Tools
rails_pulse - A comprehensive performance monitoring and debugging built using Hotwire.
🎉 Releases
rails v8.0.2.1 - Ruby on Rails web framework.
herb v0.5.0 - Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling.
view_component v4.0.2 - A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
hot-glue v0.6.23 - Plug & play Rails scaffold building companion for Turbo.
solid_cable v3.0.12 - A database backed ActionCable adapter.
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