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Rails engines often need a way of providing JavaScript for their views. We can do this using Importmaps regardless of what the application is using for assets.
Captchas help prevent bots from spamming your Rails applications so today we're implementing Cloudflare's Turnstile captchas.
Copying to the clipboard is an incredibly useful feature for a password manager. We always want to copy & paste the username and password to authenticate, so we'll write a Stimulus Controller to add copy to clipboard functionality
Turbo confirm modals typically ask a simple yes or no confirmation. What if you want to force the user to type in confirmation text to ensure they are paying attention? That's exactly what we'll build in this episode!
Need a way for users to edit code in your Rails app? CodeMirror is an excellent option for a Javascript code editor that you can use with your Rails apps. We'll set up CodeMirror with Stimulus.js so you can replace any text field in Rails.
hCaptcha is a method to try detecting bots on your website. This episode, we'll walk through how to implement hCaptcha in a way that's compatible with Turbo using Stimulus.js and
Learn how to use system tests for file uploads with file input fields and drag & drop with Uppy and Dropzone
Learn how to use Stimulus Target Callbacks to trigger realtime Chart updates
Learn how to configure live reloading with Esbuild in Rails using an EventSource and jsbundling-rails
Ever wanted to build Datatables into your Rails app? You can using Hotwire using Turbo Frames without any custom Javascript.
In this episode, we'll walk through how I discovered an improvement for Rails' new Request.js library and how we approached and implemented the feature in a pull request.
Hotwire & Turbo.js are designed to make realtime updates to your page. So how do you notify the user with flash messages or toasts? That's what we're covering in this episode.
The browser has a built-in Geolocation API that you can use to get the user's location (with permission) in Stimulus and use it with Rails
Bulk operations like "delete all", "publish all", etc require a little bit of Javascript and a special controller for handling them.
User mentions in group chat is a crucial feature, so this week we're taking a look at how to add @ mentions for our users in chat with regex and more.
It's important to see that there are unread messages in channels you're not actively viewing. We can use a very simple event in ActionCable to do this and bold channel names with unread messages.
Webpack bundles can be confusing as to what actually ships in production. Using the bundle analyzer plugin, we can visualize and see exactly what libraries and files are taking up what space.
Keeping track of a user's last read timestamp for each chat room is straightforward, especially when we use Stimulus.js to update it from the client side.
Using the Intersection Observer API, we can refactor our infinite scroll example to be much more efficient and simpler to use
An updated version of our Group Chat series using Webpacker, ActionCable, Stimulus.js, and modern Javascript to build a very clean version of realtime group chat in Rails
