phlex VS stimulus_reflex

The community was a delight! I can't even count how many people I connected with, and it was just great to meet people whom I had previously only interacted with online. Also got to meet a lot of those people who significantly contribute to the Rails ecosystem. Everyone I said hi to was more than willing to spare time and nerd out and share experiences. I was also thrilled to connect with Philip, who shares my enthusiasm for Phlex. He provided me with some exciting ideas for creating an even more crazy yet cohesive form object with Phlex.

Why use ActiveAdmin or RailsAdmin: Brick is not nearly as configurable -- at least yet! With Brick you can drop in your own model / controller / view template and it will use it, but on its own you can not change theming / use it to do templating tricks / etc. Currently working hard to arrive upon a straightforward and logical approach so that all of this will be possible. Looking into Arbre (used by ActiveAdmin) and Phlex for inspiration.

Phlex is an incredibly refreshing gem created by Joel Drapper. It introduces a remarkable way to build views in pure Ruby, as exemplified below:

A few months ago I came across https://www.phlex.fun and thought it was a nifty little library that could be useful for creating components. Since then I've been playing around with it in Rails, using it more seriously, and finally took it to a point where I built a Rails application with 100% Phlex components and 0% Erb. The other crazy thing is I figured out how to inline the Phlex view components into a controller, so prototyping Rails apps feels vaguely familiar to prototyping one in Sinatra.

A colleague has been using Phlex and I’ve since tried it as well. For me having it all be straight ruby, in one file, has worked and just from my personal preference something I’ve enjoyed over view_components.

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You might want to take a look at Phlex, which essentially has the same syntax: https://github.com/joeldrapper/phlex

Then there are stack-specific libraries: StimulusReflex for Rails, Phoenix LiveView, Laravel Livewire, Unicorn and Tetra for Django, Blazor for .NET, … and the list goes on.

Morphing and the concept to do refreshes after broadcast are hardly new. Stimulus Reflex has employed morphing to update the page for years, and CableReady::Updatable, which allows listening to model requests for refreshes, has also been around for a while. But I am excited to see these concepts being adopted in Turbo and becoming more mainstream.

Stimulus Reflex (Ruby), which predates Hotwire, also deserves a mention, though most of its momentum seemed to stall when Hotwire was announced.

https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/

Hi there, not crazy experienced on the topic but after some research i made for personal reasons i found https://mayu.live/ whick looks interesting (and as mentioned already https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/, seems to be close to Liveview)

StimulusReflex Docs pretty easy to use and release 3.5.0 is coming soon.

However, the timing may be a little off. In some ways, it feels like the "Express" way of developing for the backend is dying. We are seeing tools that blur the line between backend and frontend, trying to unify how we develop web applications. Tools like Phoenix LiveView, StimulusReflex, Laravel Livewire, Remix, Next.js, and many others are being developed.

You can also learn Rails and StimulusReflex

Reading the article and the source code, I learned a ton of stuff, as always. In his implementation, Louis is using StimulusReflex (built on top of Stimulus) to achieve this. I was curious about several points:

Now that we know that our backend is working as it should, let’s wire up our stuff. I’m gonna skip on Stimulus Reflex setup and configuration and dive right in. You can easily follow the official setup or, if you use import-maps, follow @julianrubisch’s article on the topic. I also know that leastbad has been working on an automatic installer that detects your configuration and sets everything up for you if you care to try it before the next version of SR gets released.