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Hotwire Introduction

#369 Oct 2, 2022 free

Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. With Rails 7, we get Hotwire added in by default. In this episode, we look at some of the features with Hotwire and how to use them.

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Booking System Live Updates

#366 Sep 11, 2022 pro

Continuing on from Episode 364, we look at a few different approaches to getting live updates on Full Calendar. We look at a few attempts which seems to work, but introduce unfavorable bugs and finally a workaround to get things working nicely.

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Booking System

#364 Aug 28, 2022 pro

In this episode, we use Hotwire and FullCalendar to create an appointment scheduling program. We will look at blocking appointments outside of business hours as well as preventing overlapping appointments.

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Hotwire Question and Answer Feature

#363 Aug 21, 2022 pro

In this episode, we create a highly interactive question and answer feature using Ruby on Rails and Hotwire. We also look at handling contextual actions based on the user when broadcasting the answers, all without writing any javascript.

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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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Private Chat Groups

#337 Feb 20, 2022 pro

In this episode, we look at broadcasting to private channels using stimulus controllers and turbo. We also look at the interactivity between two stimulus controllers and different ways of broadcasting to turbo streams.

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Hotwire Modals

#335 Feb 6, 2022 free

In this episode, we look at creating an unobtrusive and efficient way to launch Bootstrap modals using Turbo and Stimulus.

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Shopping Cart with Turbo

#334 Jan 30, 2022 pro

Shopping carts can be extremely complex as there are many moving parts involved. In this episode, we'll look at some of the considerations when adding this feature and build this implementation in Hotwire.

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Hotwire Dashboards

#332 Jan 16, 2022 pro

Dashboards can be a source of poor performance and contain much complexity in our applications. Using Hotwire, we can increase the responsiveness of our dashboard with a maintainable approach.

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Real-time Comments and Voting

#331 Jan 9, 2022 pro

Using Hotwire we'll create a comment and voting system from scratch without any javascript. With the help of Turbo, we enable real-time updates and broadcasts of comments and votes.

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