Modern Front-End Development for Rails

Chapter 2Hotwire and Turbo

In the last chapter we got up and running with Webpacker and TypeScript. In this chapter, we’re going to start creating front-end applications with Rails by doing something that may seem odd. We’re going to add front-end features without writing JavaScript. In fact, we are going to not write a lot of JavaScript. And by that I mean we are going to add a lot of dynamic features to our page that you’d expect would require a bunch of JavaScript, but we’re not going to write any, at least not at first. Instead, we’re going to use Hotwire and Turbo to build client-side interactivity into our page without writing JavaScript.