Week 43 - Swift SDK for Android, Liquid Glass Tab Bar, 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
Debugging Hotwire Native - WebView Debugging - William Kennedy continues his debugging series and dives into how to debug Hotwire Native apps by inspecting the WebView layer, verifying Turbo Visits and native adapters.
Hotwire Native deep dive: Authentication - Joe Masilotti breaks down how to handle authentication across web, iOS, and Android with Hotwire Native in Rails so you don't need separate APIs.
Drifting Ruby: Pull to Refresh (on a PWA) - Dave Kamura published a new video on Drifting Ruby in which he demonstrates how to re-enable pull-to-refresh behavior in iOS PWAs using Stimulus.
Phlex on Rails course is completed and launched - Brad Gessler announced the official launch of his Phlex on Rails video course. It's a 7-hour, 45-lesson deep dive into using Phlex in both new and existing Rails apps.
Liquid Glass Tab Bar for Hotwire Native Apps - Jesse Waites shares how to give a Hotwire Native iOS app Apple’s new “Liquid Glass” tab bar look using UITabBarAppearance.
Recording: Lessons from 5 years of UI architecture at GitHub - The recording of Joel Hawksley's talk at Rocky Mountain Ruby was published. He's sharing a reflection on lessons from five years of UI architecture at GitHub.
Hotwire Club: Turbo Frames - Typeahead Validation - Julian Rubisch published a new challange for The Hotwire Club about Typeahead Validation using Turbo Frames.
Announcing the Swift SDK for Android - Joannis Orlandos announced on the Swift Blog that they are shipping a Swift SDK for Android, which means you can write Swift Code and run it on Android. Joe Masilotti wrote a post about what this means for Hotwire Native: "Using Swift to build… Android apps?".
🧰 Libraries and Tools
Attractive.js - A light-weight library for declarative DOM actions using data attributes.
🎉 Releases
rails v8.1.0 - Ruby full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.
view_component v4.1.0 - A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Rails.
shakapacker v9.3.0.beta.7 - Use webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails.
proscenium v0.21.4 - v0.21.6 - Modern client-side development for Rails.
papercraft v3.0.0 - Functional HTML Templating for Ruby.
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