Building collaborative features in Rails applications often requires preventing multiple users from editing the same record simultaneously. Traditional solutions involve optimistic locking (version checking) or building complex merge strategies. But sometimes you just want to say: “Hey, […]
We recently built a quiz feature that needed to celebrate correct answers with confetti animations. The challenge wasn’t the confetti itself but coordinating between our Rails controller and the frontend JavaScript without mixing concerns or adding […]
Let’s say we want to build a blog application that allows users to highlight text within articles and attach notes to those highlights. The idea is that when a user selects some text, a dialog appears […]
Imagine we’re building a web application to organize our personal trip albums. We could have a list of albums, and when you click on each album, a grid of photos would be displayed. The HTML layout […]
Let’s imagine an app with a search page. This page displays some content unrelated to search and includes a form for users to search within the app. To avoid reloading the whole page, we decided to […]
I don’t need to emphasize the huge use that notifications have in modern applications, we can just think of everyday situations. You go into a website that has a contact form, fill in your email, subject, […]
In modern web applications, providing a smooth and responsive user experience is paramount. Infinite scrolling is a popular technique that loads content dynamically as the user scrolls, eliminating the need for traditional pagination controls. In this […]
In this article, we’re going to keep digging into the cool stuff that Turbo and Hotwire have to offer. This time we’re going to build a Planning Poker web application, enabling users to participate in estimation […]
One of the things I like most about Hotwire is the ability to change the elements of different sessions through broadcasts. We could already do this with ActionCable and some JavaScript, but thanks to Hotwire, we […]
