Rails Hotwire

Master Hotwire for building modern, reactive Rails applications using Turbo and Stimulus without requiring heavy JavaScript frameworks.

Overview

Hotwire (HTML Over The Wire) is a modern approach to building web applications that sends HTML instead of JSON over the wire. It consists of Turbo (for delivering server-rendered HTML) and Stimulus (for JavaScript sprinkles).

Installation and Setup

Installing Hotwire

# Add to Gemfile
bundle add turbo-rails stimulus-rails

# Install Turbo
rails turbo:install

# Install Stimulus
rails stimulus:install

# Install Redis for ActionCable (Turbo Streams)
bundle add redis

# Configure ActionCable
rails generate channel turbo_stream

Configuration

# config/cable.yml