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RailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson

Confreaks · 61.1K views · 2016-05-26 · 37:37

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Sam Stephenson's RailsConf 2016 talk on Turbolinks 5, showing how small teams can ship fast Rails apps in the browser and hybrid iOS and Android apps sharing one set of web views.

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Repeatedly urged on people choosing a stack, as a case against heavy SPA complexity and for shared web and native code.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 10 months · HN mentions 2017–2020

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peteforde · 2019-03 · Strong recommendation

Okay, I have lots of good news for you. First, CoffeeScript is formally deprecated. Turbolinks sucked, but Turbolinks 5 is an entirely new beast and it rocks. You need to give it a second look. I recommend this talk, sped up to 1.5x: [VIDEO] Finally, there absolutely is an opinionated client library that is designed to pair beautifully with Turbolinks 5. It's called Stimulus and it rocks. [LINK] You can play with all of these frameworks using the --webpack parameter: rails new future --skip-sprockets --skip-coffee --webpack=stimulus --database=postgresql --skip-test As a bonus for anyone starting a new Rails project today, you're going to want to bookmark [LINK] Let me know if you have any questions.

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peteforde · 2019-03 · Strong recommendation

I urge/beg you to check out the Turbolinks 5 + StimulusJS libraries, which are by the same (Rails team) people, which is no coincidence. [VIDEO]

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thrownaway954 · 2019-03 · Strong recommendation

I keep looking at C# and Blazor myself If you want an SPA type Rails way of doing things, you can use Turbolinks. This talk at RailsConf 2016 is really an eye opener. [VIDEO]

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