Modern Front-End Development for Rails

Extending Our Page with Turbo Streams

Turbo Streams is the next step in using Turbo to make pages more dynamic without writing any custom JavaScript. I encourage you to think of this development process as successive enhancement. We started with a working page that we thought needed to be more interactive. We added inline editing, we added more responsive updates to part of the page, and now we’re going to add updating multiple parts of a page from a request.

Turbo Streams allows you to send an arbitrary amount of HTML content to the page and have that content replace or augment existing content in multiple arbitrary locations on the page. It’s designed for exactly our situation, where we want multiple parts of the page to update from a single ...