malinajs VS Stimulus

The other difference is one of many bugs in Malina I discovered. We'd like to do {:else} , but HTML entities do not work properly in Malina in if/else blocks.

I think SolidJS or Vue is a correct answer, also https://github.com/malinajs/malinajs is very similar to Svelte, but differs in how it handles reactivity if I remember correctly. Anyway, I would like to offer a different one.

Besides Turbo, the other part of Hotwire is Stimulus, which typically is used for adding client-side reactivity in situations where you want to sprinkle in some JS. After all, you wouldn't want every user interaction to involve a round trip to the server. So why am I including only Turbo here and not Stimulus?

Based on Rails 7 and hotwired turbo and stimulus

According to its creator, “Stimulus.js is a JavaScript framework with modest ambitions. It doesn’t seek to take over your entire frontend—in fact, it’s not concerned with rendering HTML at all. Instead, it’s designed to augment your HTML with just enough behavior to make it shine. Stimulus pairs beautifully with Turbo to provide a complete solution for fast, compelling applications with a minimal amount of effort.

I prefer stimulus.js, it adds just another tiny layer of state onto your components, and works really easily with the observer api. ( https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/ ) . I havent done a project with htmx, but the concept seems similar to the one of stimulus.

Highly recommend the official Hotwire docs, namely the Stimulus docs.

Disclaimer: This post won't make much sense to you, if you are not familiar with Turbo streams and StimulusJS

We can use Hotwire -- specifically, Stimulus and Turbo -- to create some modals that present a nice, dynamic user experience. And they can do this while staying in a mutli-page app structure that Rails is so good at.

Mini-frameworks like AlpineJS, Vue-Petite, and Stimulus exist exactly to fill this space. But whenever I consider reaching for one of these, I usually find that the job can just as easily be done in Vanilla JS. And if it can't, it typically requires the big-framework-X anyway.

Hotwire's modest JavaScript framework [https://stimulus.hotwired.dev]

And have you tried Alpine.js and Laravel Livewire? They give you a lot of the power and functionality of an SPA without actually needing one. They compare to Ruby on Rail's first-party Stimulus and Turbo, respectively.