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Ever wondered what the difference between Symbols and Strings were? Why would we use one over the other when most languages only have strings?
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.
Linux server administration can be a pain. You can use cockpit to monitor your servers and keep an eye on long running processes like Sidekiq and Puma without having to SSH into your servers.
Security in production is important. We can use Fail2ban and NGINX to block malicious users from accessing our server and apps.
Learn how to enable the experimental new Just-in-time compiler for Ruby 2.6
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
Adding user avatars is pretty easy using Rails' ActiveStorage feature. We'll be using Devise in this example, but this applies to any user authentication system.
Starting our Embeddable JS Widget series outlining the comment and discussion models and the basic webpacker setup
Learn how to link to the current page and add, remove, or modify params in the URL. This is handy for things like search or index pages with filters.
Learn how to add sidebar search filters like Amazon.com using ElasticSearch's aggregations in Searchkick
Learn how to implement a Slack Slash Command App in Rails using webhooks
Deciding whether or not to have separate first and last name fields gets a bit confusing. Basecamp's recently released name_of_person gem shows you exactly how to handle this reliably and also stands as a fantastic example of how to build a concern
Adding pagination to our nested comment threads is easier than you might think, plus we'll take a look at a couple different approaches we can use
Nested comment threads pose a lot of unique challenges. One of these is deleting comments because you can easily lose the child comments or context. We'll take a look at a couple great ways of handling this.
