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Scroll events in Javascript can happen quickly. We want to make sure we don't request the same page multiple times which we can solve easily by introducing a little throttling.
Webpacker provides some nice tools for loading Javascript in several different ways. We're looking at require.context to see how to load an entire directory's set of files easily.
Don't like Cocoon or it's jQuery dependency? We can use Stimulus JS and build dynamic nested forms in Rails with accepts_nested_attributes_for from scratch pretty easily!
Creating draft records in your database can be tricky. We'll be using the Draftsman gem to help us create draft versions of our records with our autosave Javascript
Autosaving draft records allows you to make sure users don't lose their work and can easily write draft content without publishing right away. We'll be using Stimulus to build an autosave controller for our form and Draftsman to power the backend.
We can use webpacker to create scoped styles for our Javascript widget and build an embed code that links to the latest version of our webpacker JS and CSS for our embeddable widget.
We don't want anyone to be able to embed your Javascript widget on any domain, so we'll setup our app to check the domain and only allow the widget on specific sites
Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) allows your website to talk to other websites.
Embeddable Javascript Widgets often contain forms. We're using Vuex to build our comment form widget and we're going to use vue-map-fields to make this easier.
The next step in our embeddable javascript widget series is setting up our Vue frontend to talk with our Rails backend using Vuex
Starting our Embeddable JS Widget series outlining the comment and discussion models and the basic webpacker setup
Use the jstz Javascript timezone library to help auto-detect and set the user's time zone in your Rails apps
Build out a Twitter UI with a tweet form and inline editing using Stimulus JS
Adding Vuex as our Data Store gives us the ability to add realtime updates to our trello clone across browsers using ActionCable
In this episode, we add card component, editing of cards, and the ability to create new lists
Refactoring our trello clone into sub-components and introducing a global datastore to really clean up our code
This episode we handle drag and drop of cards in their own column and also between columns in our boards
Implement the Vue.Draggable plugin to add drag and drop support to our Vue.js application and sync the changes to the server
Adding new cards to our Vue app, persisting them in Rails, and re-rendering our UI
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