request.js VS stimulus_reflex

For some extra help with crsf tokens. I would recommend the request.js library in the rails GitHub. https://github.com/rails/request.js

We will now connect our toolbar's table button to the server-side controller action we have just written. To do this, we first need to bring Rails' request.js library into the project. This library will help us administer post requests from the client, including proper CSRF-tokens, etc.:

Then, you will need to use fetch or other libs like rails/request.js (https://github.com/rails/request.js) to send a patch request with formData to your model's update path (usually something like /fruits), this is to update your model data. If you are using scaffolded controller, you should have respond_to js configured for you by default. If not, remember to add respond_to :js to your controller, and list data attributes you wanted to return from the server.

Stimulus and request.js should get you about 90% of the way for your example

One way to work around this is described in Dale’s article. In it, a Stimulus controller and request.js are used to insert a Turbo Stream header into GET requests, getting Turbo to see the request as a Turbo Stream request despite not originating from a form submission.

The Rails.ajax function comes from the @rails/ujs package, which isn't Turbo-aware. You should be using @rails/request.js instead, which can execute Turbo Stream commands:

It's not part of Hotwire, but supplemental for when you want to make AJAX requests from Stimulus or whatever. https://github.com/rails/request.js

So with our applications we've started using request.js to make JS based requests to the applications, it's super handy and very easy to use.

request.js is a minimalistic JavaScript pacakge that is set to replace Rails UJS in the near future. We will be using it to fetch new pages from the server. Let's install the package

First, we will add the necessary NPM packages. We will use @github/webauthn-json as a nice wrapper for the WebAuthn API and @rails/request.js for easier requests to the backend (with built-in Turbo Stream support).

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.