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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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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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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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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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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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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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Saving Attributes with Hotwire

#373 Oct 30, 2022 pro

With Hotwire, we can create form where each input field is saved once a user has changed its value. We look at some of the common issues that you could run into when using Hotwire and some ways to mitigate those problems.

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Direct Upload Instantly

#279 Jan 17, 2021 pro

Learn how to select files and trigger them to upload to Active Storage instantly.

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Infinite Scrolling with Hotwire

#338 Feb 27, 2022 pro

In this episode, we have a look at two different approaches for implementing an infinite scrolling feature within a Ruby on Rails application with Hotwire. The first method will use a Stimulus Controller to handle AJAX requests back to the Rails application. The second approach will not use any external library, other than Hotwire, nor any javascript to accomplish the infinite scrolling.

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Creating and Publishing a Stimulus Controller Library

#206 Sep 8, 2019 pro

In this episode, we create a public StimulusJS Controller and publish it to NPM to that it can be shared and reused in other applications.

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Saving Attributes with Hotwire

Direct Upload Instantly

Infinite Scrolling with Hotwire

Creating and Publishing a Stimulus Controller Library