Hotwire components that refresh themselves

Using ViewComponents that know how to refresh themselves via turbo_streams is a powerful pattern to build complex flows with Hotwire

Earlier this year I made a tweet about a pattern for interactive Hotwire features that people seemed to like:

With the help of my friend Jesper, we turned this into a full article as there were some questions about some of the details in the thread.

Key takeaways from me:

• Using components (ViewComponent or Phlex) is a much nicer experience than standard Rails partials for turbo streaming

• Wrapping logic like dom_ids and broadcast channels in the component is good — even if it slightly offends some SRP purists

• People are still sleeping on `UI` namespace for components!

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👉 Read it here: Hotwire components that refresh themselves

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Stay boring!

- Matt