player_sorting_frames VS view_component

If you want to follow along with this article and you haven’t already completed the sortable table article locally, you’ll want to begin by cloning this Github repo. If you have completed the sortable table article, this one picks up exactly where that one ends, so go ahead and work from where that article finished.

You can demo the application for yourself on Heroku (the free dyno may need a moment to wake up when you visit it) or view the complete source on Github.

When searching for examples of table components built with the ViewComponent gem, I was surprised to find none. After some inquiries, I came across examples that worked like this:

View components offer two primary ways to interact with the component: passing arguments to the initializer and using slots:

For example, splitting out views into partials? Or the new ViewComponent feature that's becoming quite popular - https://viewcomponent.org/

I used to do "pure ruby" approach to that -- but basically wound up realizing I was re-inventing github's view_component. Their design goals were similar enough to what I was trying to do, that it made more sense just to use that, rather than try to re-invent it myself.

ViewComponent

The linked one is my Rails implementation, written for ViewComponent. The official version uses Nunjucks.