view_component VS turbo-rails

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.

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

The install notes here link to an issue specific to webpacker. Try that and see if it works?

True, in theory it is. A lot of it is coded in libraries like turbo-rails, though. And these are Rails-specific. But I've seen it being used in some Laravel projects, also I used it with Hanami.

Check out https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-rails/blob/main/app/models/turbo/streams/tag_builder.rb

So apart from the pretty obvious question of "why on earth would you want to do this?", I think there's a misunderstanding here of the intended use case of turbo streams. You have a page, and then some state changes on the server and you want to update the page to reflect that. Incrementing a variable doesn't really qualify as a state change, but perhaps a Product changing from "not good" to "good" would be an event worth broadcasting, which you could do using the Broadcastable concern in turbo-rails.

Use this too: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-rails

Not mentioned in the article, but it's nice that turbo-rails recently gained the ability to pass ViewComponent objects directly to turbo stream helpers. https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-rails/pull/433

Release notes: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-rails/releases/tag/v1.4.0

turbo/streams_channel.rb - a way to link a turbo stream with an ActionCable channel.

The readme seems to give a pretty good overview of turbo: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-rails