Modern Front-End Development for Rails

Chapter 9Talking to the Server

Communicating with the server is an important task of client-side apps. The server is usually the source of data truth, and it has information the client needs. For example, server information may have changed, and we may need updated data to draw a new part of the client application. The server also often needs to be informed of actions taken on the client.

In a Hotwire environment, you can use Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams to manage a lot of server interactivity through regular HTTP requests to the server, which then returns regular HTML responses. However, sometimes you may want to manage server communication as part of your Stimulus and React code.

In this chapter, we’ll look at using Stimulus to mediate ...