Rendering CSS with Data Attributes

To show how generic our SortController is, I’m going to use it to fix a different problem with our schedule page. Right now, if you edit a concert on the page and change its start time, the concert page does not re-sort to insert the concert based on its new time.

This is admittedly a small problem, even by the standards of this sample app, but I want to show this solution because I think it’s neat, and I think it shows a technique for leveraging Turbo and Stimulus that you may not have thought of. (This is also based on something Hey.com does.)

A Couple of Cautions

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This technique does re-sort the concerts ...

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