Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1

We cover:

• Using partial templates
• Rendering into the page layout
• Updating pages dynamically with Ajax and CoffeeScript
• Highlighting changes with CSS Animations
• Hiding and revealing DOM elements
• Broadcasting changes with Action Cable
• Testing the Ajax updates

Chapter 11Task F: Add a Dash of Ajax

Our customer wants us to add Ajax support to the store. But what is Ajax?

Back in the old days (up until 2005 or so), browsers were treated as dumb devices. When you wrote a browser-based application, you’d send stuff to the browser and then forget about that session. At some point, the user would fill in some form fields or click a hyperlink, and your application would get woken up by an incoming request. It would render a complete page back to the user, ...