Modern Front-End Development for Rails, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2Hotwire and Turbo

In the last chapter we got up and running with Rails and TypeScript. In this chapter, we’re going to start creating front-end applications by doing something that may seem odd. We’re going to add front-end features without writing JavaScript. And by that I mean we are going to add a lot of dynamic features to our page that you’d expect would require a bunch of JavaScript, but we’re not going to write any, at least not at first. Instead, we’re going to use Hotwire and Turbo to build client-side interactivity into our page without writing JavaScript.