Week 36 - Rails World 2025: Rails 8.1 beta, Lexxy, ReActionView, and more!
Discover the latest Hotwire insights, tutorials, and releases in this week edition of Hotwire Weekly!
Welcome to Hotwire Weekly!
Welcome to another, slightly delayed, issue of Hotwire Weekly! Happy reading! 🚀✨
Rails World also marks the two-year anniversary of Hotwire Weekly! 🎉
📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos
Lexxy: A new rich text editor for Rails - Jorge Manrubia published a new blog post and video on the 37 singals blog about their new rich text editor built on Lexical.
Modern CSS organization (in Rails) - Rails Designer explores how modern CSS features, like native nesting and custom properties, enable cleaner, component-focused styling in Rails apps without preprocessors like Sass.
An Out of Body Experience with Turbo - Miles Woodroffe explains how third-party messenger widgets can disappear during Turbo Drive navigations. His solution: move the widget completely outside the <body> to preserve iframe state, or alternatively intercept turbo:before-render for a more complex fix.
RubyEvents.org Hotwire Native Android App - The RubyEvents.org Android app, built using Hotwire Native, is ready for beta testing. If you are on Android and want to help getting the app out into the Play Store please reply with your Google Play E-Mail address and we will happily add you to the beta. The app is fully open source.
Code and the Coding Coders who Code it: Marco Roth - Marco Roth joins Drew Bragg on the Code and the Coding Coders who Code it podcast to talk about Herb, ReActionView, and more!
Slides from "Introducing ReActionView: A new ActionView-compatible ERB Engine" - Marco Roth published his slides from his Rails World Talk. He also shared his summary slide on social media:
At @Rails World 2025, I introduced ReActionView, an initiative to explore what's possible in the Rails view layer for 2025 and beyond.
— Marco Roth (@marcoroth_) September 5, 2025
As part of this, I announced Herb::Engine, an ActionView-compatible ERB engine built on top of the HTML-aware Herb Parser.#RailsWorld2025 pic.twitter.com/2kGgMUZOHx
🧰 Libraries and Tools
Lexxy - A modern rich text editor for Rails.
Action Push Native - Rails push notifications for mobile platforms.
ReActionView - A new ActionView-compatible ERB engine with modern DX - re-imagined with Herb.
🎉 Releases
Rails 8.1 Beta 1 - Ruby MVC Web Framework.
react_on_rails v15.0.0 - React on Rails.
turbo-laravel v2.4.0 - Turbo for Laravel Applications.
stimulus-laravel v1.4.0 - Stimulus for Laraval Applications.
reactionview v0.1.0 - A new ActionView-compatible ERB engine with modern DX - re-imagined with Herb.
herb v0.7.0 - Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling.
bridge-components v0.7.0 - A collection of bridge components for Hotwire Native apps.
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