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Modern Front-End Development for Rails, 2nd Edition
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Modern Front-End Development for Rails, 2nd Edition

by Noel Rappin
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
10h 7m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Stimulus Has Class

In our current code we are using the hidden CSS class to denote hidden status, and we are hard-coding the class name inside our controller. That’s not really a big deal for a short class name that is unlikely to change, but it’s better practice to not tightly couple the class name to the controller and allow for arbitrary CSS classes. Eventually, we’ll want our controller to have more generic behavior.

Stimulus has a mechanism for this, where we can store the class name as a special data attribute. Essentially, classes are special cases of the values attributes. The name of the data attribute has the form data-<controllerName>-<descriptor>-class, and the value of the attribute is the name of the CSS class being described—typically ...

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