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Polling with StimulusJS

#211 Oct 13, 2019 pro

Sometimes an old techniques with a modern twist can not only solve the problems at hand, but can also simplify the application's architecture.

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Saving Individual Attributes with StimulusJS

#189 May 19, 2019 pro

In this episode, we take a look at recreating a feature on Zoom's setting page where clicking a check box automatically saves the changed setting.

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Cropping Active Storage Uploads

#280 Jan 24, 2021 pro

Cropping images can be hard and there can be quite a few complications. In this episode, we have a look at using StimulusJS to crop images uploaded through Active Storage.

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Action Text Mentions and Notifications

#229 Feb 16, 2020 pro

In this episode, learn how to configure user mentions in Action Text with TributeJS and notify users whenever they are mentioned.

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Record Audio to Active Storage

#269 Nov 22, 2020 pro

Learn how to use the MediaRecorder API and StimulusJS for uploading and storing audio files to Active Storage.

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Modern Chat Feature

#318 Oct 10, 2021 pro

In this episode, we create a chat application using Rails 7, esbuild (JS Bundling), CSS Bundling, Hotwire, and Action Text. We also dive into some issues around CSS Bundling and Action Text.

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Adaptive Bitrate Streaming with Active Storage

#232 Mar 8, 2020 pro

Adaptive streaming allows the video provider to create a different video for each of the screen sizes (or devices) that he or she wishes to target. In this episode, we look at converting our Progressive Video Streams into Adaptive Bitrate Streams and serving it through Active Storage.

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Organizing Stimulus Controllers

#267 Nov 8, 2020 pro

StimulusJS is great and works great with Ruby on Rails. However, through developer habits, we can complicate our controllers and make them hard to manage. In this episode, we look at making our Stimulus controllers more manageable.

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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

#254 Aug 9, 2020 pro

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell browsers to give a web application running at one origin, access to selected resources from a different origin.

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Creating and Reading QR Codes

#278 Jan 10, 2021 pro

Reading QR Codes can be a tricky task. We look at being able to generate QR Codes on our Ruby on Rails backend and read them on the client side using a couple of libraries and Stimulus JS.

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Record Audio to Active Storage

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Adaptive Bitrate Streaming with Active Storage

Organizing Stimulus Controllers

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Creating and Reading QR Codes