Week 46 - Herb v0.8, Inline Edit Custom Element, and more!
Discover the latest Hotwire insights, tutorials, and releases in this week edition of Hotwire Weekly!
Welcome to Hotwire Weekly!
Welcome to another, issue of Hotwire Weekly! Happy reading! 🚀✨
The first San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025 is happening next week. It features some Hotwire-adjacent talks:
Real-time collaboration with Rails, AnyCable and Yjs by JP Camara
Master the Rails Asset Pipeline: Best Practices for Apps & Gems by Adrian Marin
Inertia Rails Workshop by Brandon Shar, Svyat Kryukov, and Brian Knoles
Marco will be attending, come say hi if you are attending as well!
📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos
What's new in Herb v0.8 - Marco Roth published a post on the Herb Blog detailing the new features in Herb v0.8. It's a major update for this HTML+ERB tooling ecosystem. Highlights include Rust & Java bindings, a .herb.yml config file, linter --fix support, custom linter/rewriter rules, Tailwind Class Sorting integration, improved editor integrations, and a lot of improvements under the hood.
Debugging Hotwire Native Part 5 - Breakpoints - William Kennedy demonstrates how to set effective breakpoints across the web-to-native boundary in a Hotwire Native app, showing where to pause in web views, native adapters, and bridge components to trace issues across both sides of the stack.
Rendering Samples with Showcase for Ruby on Rails - Alexandre Ruban on the App Signal blog dives into how the showcase-rails gem lets you go beyond static previews and render live usage samples of your components. You get real examples, source extraction, render timing, and syntax display, all in one place.
Inline editing with custom elements in Rails - Rails Designer shows how to build inline-edit capable components with a custom HTML tag that wraps content, detects clicks, swaps in an input field, and saves changes via fetch.
A few more free Phlex on Rails videos - Brad Gessler released two more free Phlex on Rails Course videos: Rendering and Tags, attributes, & text.
🎉 Releases
view_component v4.1.1 - A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
herb v0.8.0 - v0.8.2 - Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling.
morphlex v1.0.1 - Efficient DOM morphing library.
proscenium v0.22.2 - Integrated Frontend Development for Rails.
shakapacker v9.3.3 - Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails.
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