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Hotwire Native for Rails Developers
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Hotwire Native for Rails Developers

by Joe Masilotti
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from Hotwire Native for Rails Developers

Customize the Component

Up next, we’ll walk through how to customize the bridge component in the following ways:

  • Respond to button taps.
  • Make the button text dynamic.
  • Hide the HTML version of the button.
  • Add a dynamic image.
  • Fix some bugs along the way.

Respond to Button Taps

On the web, we used send() to pass a message to native code. To pass a message from native code to the web, we have reply(to:). Call this via a UIAction, which fires when the button is tapped.

 import​ ​HotwireNative
 import​ ​UIKit
 
 class​ ​ButtonComponent​: ​BridgeComponent​ {
 override​ ​class​ ​var​ name: ​String​ { ​"button"​ }
 
 override​ ​func​ ​onReceive​(message: ​Message​) {
»let​ action = ​UIAction​(title: ...
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