Progressive Web Apps are about to get a huge bump in functionality on iOS devices. Starting in iOS 16.4, we will be able to receive push notifications natively on our iOS devices from our Ruby on Rails PWA. In this episode, we explore creating push notifications from scratch without the need of a Google or Apple developer account.

In this episode, we look at setting up a Rails 7 API (only) application and create our own authentication solution. We'll also write the tests around the different controller endpoints that we create to make sure that we have good test coverage and functionality.

In this episode, we take a new approach to the python service that our Rails background jobs will be calling. This is a more stable and thread safe approach and more simple to implement. We'll look at creating a Text to Image generation service that our Rails application will interact with.

Learn to create a reusable Stimulus controller to be able to toggle fields so that we can hide sensitive information from prying eyes, screenshots or when sharing our screen.

In this episode, we take a user privacy focused approach to tracking emails for unique opens and view counts. We'll look at how we can track these emails without invading the user's privacy and get meaningful metrics.