react-native-screens VS turbo

react-native-url-router (a single navigation system, using React Router + react-native-screens for stacks + react-native-pager-viewfor tabs).

Sure. Here is an example of what I'm talking about on github.

FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: web.tradenewton.com, PID: 13063 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{web.tradenewton.com/web.tradenewton.com.MainActivity}: androidx.fragment.app.Fragment$InstantiationException: Unable to instantiate fragment com.swmansion.rnscreens.ScreenStackFragment: calling Fragment constructor caused an exception at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3616) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3780) at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:85) at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135) at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2251) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:233) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8063) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:631) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:978) Caused by: androidx.fragment.app.Fragment$InstantiationException: Unable to instantiate fragment com.swmansion.rnscreens.ScreenStackFragment: calling Fragment constructor caused an exception at androidx.fragment.app.Fragment.instantiate(Fragment.java:631) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentContainer.instantiate(FragmentContainer.java:57) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager$3.instantiate(FragmentManager.java:483) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentStateManager.(FragmentStateManager.java:85) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.restoreSaveState(FragmentManager.java:2728) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentController.restoreSaveState(FragmentController.java:198) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity$2.onContextAvailable(FragmentActivity.java:149) at androidx.activity.contextaware.ContextAwareHelper.dispatchOnContextAvailable(ContextAwareHelper.java:99) at androidx.activity.ComponentActivity.onCreate(ComponentActivity.java:297) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity.onCreate(FragmentActivity.java:273) at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate(AppCompatActivity.java:115) at com.facebook.react.ReactActivity.onCreate(ReactActivity.java:44) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8006) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7990) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1329) at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3589) ... 11 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance0(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:343) at androidx.fragment.app.Fragment.instantiate(Fragment.java:613) ... 26 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Screen fragments should never be restored. Follow instructions from https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens/issues/17#issuecomment-424704067 to properly configure your main activity. at com.swmansion.rnscreens.ScreenFragment.(ScreenFragment.kt:41) at com.swmansion.rnscreens.ScreenStackFragment.(ScreenStackFragment.kt:30) ... 29 more

It´s very likely you are using react-native-screens and you forgot to updat the onCreate method. Just make sure you're onCreate method looks like this

Not yet, you can open an issue in react-native-screens repo and follow these issues: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens/issues/561 https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens/issues/317

I LOVE the large title header behavior of the native-stack on iOS. I really wish the folks at RNav would implement something like that in a future release (I had rebuilt the large header from the ground up on our first app using Animated). As it stands, I am 90% sure I want to implement it on Words – but other features / fixes come first!

I also recommend checking out the docs for Stimulus and Turbo to familiarise yourself with all their features and the APIs used in this series.

https://github.com/hotwired/turbo

Turbo 8 remove typescript without using JSDOC

Experiment using Turbo to drive front-end behavior: "Turbo 7.2.0 (currently in beta) allows you to define your own Stream actions which can be any JS code you want. By combining a custom Stream action or two with web components, you can essentially drive reactive frontend behavior from the backend stupidly easily. Loooove it! 😍 […] For a turnkey example, you could check out https://github.com/hopsoft/turbo_ready " —Jared White on The Spicy Web Discord

This handles disconnection (as could be done by any destructive change to the DOM, like navigating with Turbo or htmx, I'm not even talking about using the element in a JavaScript-heavy web app) but not reconnection though, and we've exited early from the connectedCallback to avoid initializing the element twice, so this change actually broke our component in these situations where it's moved around, or stashed and then reinserted. To fix that, we need to always call addSparkles in connectedCallback, so move all the rest into an if, that's actually as simple as that… except that when the user prefers reduced motion, sparkles are never removed, so they keep piling in each time the element is connected again. One way to handle that, without introducing our housekeeping of individual timers, is to just remove all sparkles on disconnection. Either that or conditionally add them in connectedCallback if either we're initializing the element (including attaching the shadow DOM) or the user doesn't prefer reduced motion. The difference between both approaches is in whether we want the small animation when the sparkles appear (and appearing at new random locations). I went with the latter.

If you think you have seen enough Rails magic, you are mistaken my friend. Rails have a new trick up its sleeve: Hotwire. And with the magical Turbo tool that comes with it, you can create modern, interactive web applications with minimal, or sometimes no JavaScript at all, providing users with an incredibly smooth experience.

There is also Turbo and the frameworks who adopt them, Ruby on Rails, PHP Symphony and possibly others that solves the same issue in the same manner as HTMX. And the choice for HTMX is only a personal taste in this, but you should definitely learn about this, this is as cool as HTMX!

Most controversially, the Turbo framework dropped TypeScript support altogether after assessing that strong typing was the culprit behind poor developer experience.

Turbo[0] has been solving this for years. Quite the contrary, front-end frameworks have started to think "sending JSON is good, but actually sending HTML could be great!".

DHH's presentation[1] during Rails World 2023 is quite interesting in that regard, I recommend you give it a go (start around minute 16). I am actually very excited with his vision of the web.

[0] https://turbo.hotwired.dev/