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Wordle Clone

#340 Mar 13, 2022 pro

We look at recreating the popular Wordle game with StimulusJS. By exploring the mechanics of the game, we build our own approach.

rails javascript stimulusjs

Remote Development

#339 Mar 6, 2022 free

Having a fast and expensive computer to do daily development is a luxury. Sometimes, we may be in a position where we are just getting started with programming and the budget is very small. In this episode we look at a very moderately priced Chromebook and explore how we can make it into a viable development machine.

rails development

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.

rails hotwire javascript turbo

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.

rails hotwire stimulusjs turbo

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.

7.0 rails hotwire turbo stimulusjs

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.

hotwire rails turbo

Good Job

#333 Jan 23, 2022 pro

GoodJob is a multithreaded, Postgres-based, ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.

background processing rails

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.

hotwire rails view

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.

7.0 hotwire rails turbo

Local Mail Delivery

#329 Dec 26, 2021 pro

Sending out emails is an important for of communication in our Rails applications. In this episode, we look at creating a local smtp relay with a web frontend to view the emails sent from our Rails application.

docker rails mail smtp

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