malinajs VS turbo

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.

They instead switched to turbo.

So far the best way I found is to use a Stimulus controller as described in this post by DHH https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/issues/109

On to the frontend! Turbo is part of Hotwire, which now ships with Rails. Turbo makes it really easy to give server-rendered pages a snappy SPA feel, where parts of the page are updated instantly instead of a full page reload.

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.

Thanks for the link, it is an interesting and obvious way to have clearer conversations.

Multiple types have a recommendation to use "turbolinks-style transitions", which was new to me. So I did some research, and it's basically another take on "just render html, and let a framework take care of AJAX-ifying it". I've seen some attempts at this before, like the UpdatePanel's from ASP.Net Web Forms back in the 2000's.

It looks like Turbolinks itself is defunct, but has been superseded by Turbo (https://github.com/hotwired/turbo), and I only see chatter in Rails communities. It also looks like there are some other alternatives.

Are people actually using "turbolinks-style transitions"? And if so, what are you using how is it working out for you?

So I was wondering how one would go about creating custom turbo stream actions. From how DHH (the original creator of Rails) has discussed turbo streams, it is unlikely that turbo will support more actions, there is a pending PR but not much has moved.

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.

Laughs in Turbo