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Honest Take — Before You Begin
Honest reflections on the frontend revolution Rails needed
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Course · 5 lessons
~38 hr
Intermediate
Modern Rails — Hotwire, Turbo & the Frontend Story
Master the modern Rails frontend stack: Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus), import maps, and the philosophy of HTML-over-the-wire. Build rich, interactive applications without a JavaScript SPA framework.
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
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Complete Architecture Patterns & Domain Modeling first.
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Read: Modern Front-End Development for Rails (Rappin)
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
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Hotwire official docs
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Read: The Rails and Hotwire Codex
Approach: READ cover-to-cover, BUILD ALONG
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Hotwire official docs
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Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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Checkpoint: Build a real-time feature (chat, notifications, or live d...
Build a real-time feature (chat, notifications, or live dashboard) using Turbo Streams over WebSocket. No React, no Vue -- pure Hotwire. Deploy it and show it working.
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5 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.