view_component VS turbo

Compare view_component vs turbo and see what are their differences.

view_component

A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails. (by ViewComponent)

turbo

The speed of a single-page web application without having to write any JavaScript (by hotwired)
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view_component turbo
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9.0 8.8
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MIT License MIT License
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view_component

Posts with mentions or reviews of view_component. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-01.
  • Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023
  • Have you been using ViewComponent. What advantages do you see in it?
    6 projects | /r/rails | 6 May 2023
  • Vanilla Rails view components with partials | Stanko K.R.
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 3 Apr 2023
    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.
  • Gnarly Learnings from March 2023
    6 projects | dev.to | 29 Mar 2023
    ViewComponent
  • Os benefícios de componentizar as views do Rails
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2023
  • Does anyone kind of miss simpler webpages?
    6 projects | /r/webdev | 5 Feb 2023
    The linked one is my Rails implementation, written for ViewComponent. The official version uses Nunjucks.
  • I QUIT MY JOB
    3 projects | /r/Frontend | 16 Jan 2023
    In short, we migrated to ViewComponentViewComponent, opting for good ole Rails views, which allowed us to simplify the stack while retaining the benefits of the presenter pattern.
  • Rails 7 + Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus) = Modern web applications
    4 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2022
    tl;dr; Let’s understand how we can migrate a scaffold generated by the command ‘bin/rails g scaffold Kit::Product name:string’, to an improved and performative screen. Inserting partial load and DOM manipulation writing a very little code in VanillaJS (“almost” without to write Javascript). Scaffold (Rails 7) Getting Started with Rails (https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#creating-a-new-rails-project-installing-rails) Generating the scaffold (https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-generate): Using just one command you will generate all of these files: Model, Migration, Controllers, Routes, Tests, Helpers, and JSON. $ **bin/rails generate scaffold HighScore game:string score:integer** invoke active_record create db/migrate/20190416145729_create_high_scores.rb create app/models/high_score.rb invoke test_unit create test/models/high_score_test.rb create test/fixtures/high_scores.yml invoke resource_route route resources :high_scores invoke scaffold_controller create app/controllers/high_scores_controller.rb invoke erb create app/views/high_scores create app/views/high_scores/index.html.erb create app/views/high_scores/edit.html.erb create app/views/high_scores/show.html.erb create app/views/high_scores/new.html.erb create app/views/high_scores/_form.html.erb invoke test_unit create test/controllers/high_scores_controller_test.rb create test/system/high_scores_test.rb invoke helper create app/helpers/high_scores_helper.rb invoke test_unit invoke jbuilder create app/views/high_scores/index.json.jbuilder create app/views/high_scores/show.json.jbuilder create app/views/high_scores/_high_score.json.jbuilder Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode After installing Rails, create your project, and generate your scaffold. Let's try to improve the default interface. I am using the Tailwind to insert styles on the interfaces and the ViewComponent for “creating reusable, testable & encapsulated view components, built to integrate seamlessly with Ruby on Rails”. You could see the resulting code at https://github.com/raphox/rails-7-fullstack. Turbo (heart of Hotwire) Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. You can see the unique application’s screen in the following image. Yes, this project has just one screen. Let’s try to be simple to focus on the most important things. In this screen, we have two dynamic areas: List of products Form to create and edit the selected product I created a PR so you can see the exact part of the code that was changed or inserted to use the Hotwire on your project. You can see this PR on https://github.com/raphox/rails-7-fullstack/pull/1. The unique screen on the system has a few triggers to call actions or make requests. Plus button to access the ‘kit/products/new’ page Search input field Products links to access the product’s edit page Buttons to update, remove or create products based on the form’s fields data Using the Turbo, we can override the click event of the plus button to request the HTML of a new product form from the backend and put it in the ‘product_form’ area. You don’t need to write Javascript to override the events on your elements, just insert a new attribute ‘turbo_frame’ on your HTML tag. Like here: We can use the same approach of the plus button in the link of products and prevent reloading the entire screen HTML and assets. Now we need to use a little Javascript to insert the event ‘change’ to request a filtered list of products from the backend. In my code, I insert the ‘turbo_frame’ attribute into the form to change the submit action making the request using Turbo. In the next topic, we can see how to use the Stimulus and Javascript controllers to change the event ‘change’ of the input. Now we will need to submit the form and refresh the list of products. But we can do this better. We know that the updated list has changed on the created/updated product. So, we need to update the list with this product, instead refresh and query all the list of products from the database. To do this we need to use a lot of the Javascript code or a few actions from the Stimulus. You can see about the Javascript controller in the next topic. Stimulus (modest JavaScript framework) You won’t see any difference. But the code savings and ease of integration will help you a lot when inserting new features. The objective here is to insert an event on the search input form to make a request when the user changes the input’s value. When it occurs, the system will make a request to get all products filtered by the ‘name’ column. The result will be inserted into the list after it. To implement the Stimulus in our current project, we need to follow the following steps: 1. Insert the attribute ‘data-controller=”search-list”’ to the wrapper with the form and the list of the products (app/components/search_list_component.html.erb line 1). — This attribute is responsible to relate the following code to the DIV element. Get more info here https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/. — You can use the command ‘./bin/rails generate stimulus controllerName’ to generate the Javascript file with the class definition and import it in the ‘app/javascript/controllers/index.js’ automatically. 2. Insert the attribute ‘data-search_list_target=”inputSearch”’ to the form search field (app/components/search_list_form_component.html.erb line 2). 3. Insert the action (click->search-list#selectItem) to activate the currently selected product (app/components/search_list_item_component.rb lines 20). 4. Insert the attribute ‘search_list_target=”item”’ to each item of the product list (app/components/search_list_item_component.rb lines 21). I am using https://viewcomponent.org/ to define the view components instead to use a view or partial. Pay attention to this part https://viewcomponent.org/#performance. I really liked having this structure in my project: rails-7-fullstack/_list.html.erb at 11a479dafa5c84a1e769721d57792f39914a1204 ·… This approach is very similar to the React components or other Javascript Frameworks. I created a PR where you can see the exact part of the code I changed or inserted to use the Stimulus on my project. You can see this PR on https://github.com/raphox/rails-7-fullstack/pull/2.
  • Are utility classes horrible design or am I dumb?
    5 projects | /r/webdev | 18 Sep 2022
    Rails has view components. GitHub started the pattern years ago in their Rails app.
  • Can anyone recommend good, free component libraries for Tailwind?
    6 projects | /r/tailwindcss | 25 Aug 2022
    In Rails, I personally like to reuse a components and for that I use viewcomponents Gem (https://viewcomponent.org) My erb are still very verbose but I dont dupplicate the HTML.

turbo

Posts with mentions or reviews of turbo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Turbo Streaming Modals in Ruby on Rails
    4 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024
    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.
    4 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024
    In the above snippet, this refers to StreamElement, which is the custom element underpinning . The templateContent getter is defined by this element.
  • Htmx vs. React: A Complete Comparison – Semaphore
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
  • What is JSDoc and why you may not need typescript for your next project?
    8 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2024
    Turbo 8 remove typescript without using JSDOC
  • Coming to grips with JS: a Rubyist's deep dive
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Dec 2023
    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
  • Improving a web component, one step at a time
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Dec 2023
    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.
  • Mastering Rails Web Navigation with link_to and button_to Helpers - Part 2
    4 projects | dev.to | 22 Oct 2023
    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.
  • Why you should choose HTMX for your next project
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023
    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!
  • JavaScript First, Then TypeScript
    5 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2023
    Most controversially, the Turbo framework dropped TypeScript support altogether after assessing that strong typing was the culprit behind poor developer experience.
  • RailsWorld 2023: Hotwire Edition
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2023
    You can find a demo video and more information here: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/1019

What are some alternatives?

When comparing view_component and turbo you can also consider the following projects:

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

Turbolinks - Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster

hotwire-rails - Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

inertia - Inertia.js lets you quickly build modern single-page React, Vue and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing and controllers.

Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have

morphdom - Fast and lightweight DOM diffing/patching (no virtual DOM needed)

turbo-rails - Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app

importmap-rails - Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling.

Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

stimulus_reflex - Build reactive applications with the Rails tooling you already know and love.

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.