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Using Hotwire with Rails for a SPA like experience
In a previous post I wrote about using Rails and Stimulus to create a SPA like experience with page navigation. Since then, the Basecamp team has released Hotwire to allow for similar functionality but with little-to-no Javascript.We’ll take a loo...
Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches tha...
Five Turbo Lessons I Learned the Hard Way | Viget
We've been using Turbo on our latest client project (a Ruby on Rails web application), and after a slight learning curve, we've been super impressed by how much dynamic behavior it's allowed us to add while writing very little code. We have hit so...
6 Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers - Earthly Blog
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more things at the command line. I’m not a hard-core terminal guy – I use VSCode more than Vim – but I’m always surprised at the number of complex tasks that can be done using just the POSIX standard command-line tool...
Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby · Sorbet
For the past year, the Sorbet team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we’re sharing the source code for it. It lives alongside the existing code for Sorbet on GitHub, mostly in t...
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