Nah this is entirely seperate from that although I think View Component (also from GitHub in case anyone is wondering) is super exciting.
They are basically doing a major rewrite of Turbolinks and Stimulus I think. If you go to app.hey.com and jump into dev tools you can kind of start to piece things together somewhat since they have made all of the source maps available. But I’m yet to see too many people really figure out what is happening and I’m excited for the official announcement.
I think the idea that Rails has somewhat lagged behind the rest of the front end world is in many ways an overblown talking point but is at the same time in no way an unfair criticism.
I’ve heard the core team make several references for the last year that this new approach is basically to front end what Rails was to backend when it launched in terms of developer experience while keeping 80-90% of the performance benefits of SPAs but with 0% of the drama. Or at least this is how I understand them to be promoting it.
They are basically doing a major rewrite of Turbolinks and Stimulus I think. If you go to app.hey.com and jump into dev tools you can kind of start to piece things together somewhat since they have made all of the source maps available. But I’m yet to see too many people really figure out what is happening and I’m excited for the official announcement.
I think the idea that Rails has somewhat lagged behind the rest of the front end world is in many ways an overblown talking point but is at the same time in no way an unfair criticism.
I’ve heard the core team make several references for the last year that this new approach is basically to front end what Rails was to backend when it launched in terms of developer experience while keeping 80-90% of the performance benefits of SPAs but with 0% of the drama. Or at least this is how I understand them to be promoting it.