Week 39 - Components without gems, Rails Views Performance, 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
Hotwire Caching Problem - Amanda Klusmeyer published a blog post on the Flagrant blog about a bug where session-based tab state clashes with Turbo’s navigation cache.
How to install the Bridge Components library - Joe Masilotti published a new video in which he's showing how to install his bridge-components library in a Rails application, alongside the iOS and Android Hotwire Native apps.
View Components Over Turbo Streams with Hotwire - Juan Ferrari shows how to render ViewComponents directly in Turbo Streams, replacing partials.
Rails Views Performance Matters: Can render Slow You Down? - Fernando Martinez benchmarks various Rails rendering strategies and shows how inline views outperform partials, collection rendering, and implicit rendering. This is definitely something the Herb::Engine could improve and bring closer together in the future.
Components in Rails without gems - Rails Designer shares a minimal, gem-free component helper approach for building reusable UI pieces. Just use a component helper pointing to app/views/components/....
Paperback Version: Hotwire Native for Rails Developers: Build Native Mobile Apps Using Your Server - Joe Masilotti's book, "Hotwire Native for Rails Developers" is now also available as a paperback version. It is also available on Amazon. If you want the digital version you can get it in The Pragmatic Bookshelf store.
🧰 Libraries and Tools
lexxy - A modern rich text editor for Rails.
🎉 Releases
turbo-rails v2.0.17 - Turbo for Rails.
bridge-components v0.9.0 - A collection of bridge components for Hotwire Native apps.
react_on_rails v16.1.0 - Integration of React + Webpack + Rails.
shakapacker v9.0.0.beta.0 - Use webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails.
herb v0.7.3 - v0.7.4 - Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling.
hot-glue v0.6.28 - Plug & play Rails scaffold building companion for Turbo.
propshaft v1.3.0 - Modern asset pipeline library for Rails.
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