turbo-ios

Turbo is pretty similar to htmx and Turbo iOS produces some stellar experiences https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios

If you're a SwiftUI developer I have an issue open at https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios/issues/8 to get Turbo SwiftUI off the ground. I have it working in one of my projects, but I'm not a Swift developer so it's pretty much a hack job and doesn't have the APIs I'd like. I've talked to a few folks about it and have heard responses ranging from "it's a bad idea/can't be done" (mainly because of SwiftUI bugs) to "why would you want to do that?". I think it would be amazing to have a declarative of building out a Hotwire Rails application inside of iOS. Bonus if the Turbo SwiftUI component could run on macOS.

It's not official, but I have a series of blog posts on going from zero to App Store. [1] You are still required to write a fair amount of native boilerplate code to get an app working. The official Demo app [2] can get you pretty far but doesn't cover things like authentication. I've recently become an official maintainer of the Turbo Native libraries and hope to help clean up all of this over the next few months. [1] https://masilotti.com/turbo-ios/ [2] https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios/tree/main/Demo

Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Postgres, Redis Does anyone have experience with https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios or https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-android ?

I use Turbo Native on iOS to do exactly this. You render your mobile web view like normal, wire up a JavaScript handler (formerly known as Turbolinks), and push native screens on iOS. It works really well for CRUD and "boring" SAAS apps with little interaction outside of forms. And when you need higher fidelity dropping down to SwiftUI or UIKit is straightforward. https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios To make things even simpler, I built Jumpstart iOS, which takes care of all of the Swift boilerplate. Navigation, authentication, and push notifications all work out of the box after adding a few endpoints to your server. https://jumpstartrails.com/ios

I’d like to see this integrate more tightly with Rails Turbo framework. Ideally it would understand Visitables and plug into SwiftUI. I took a swing at that at https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios/issues/8 but have struggled to get it working … that and Strada hasn’t come out yet, which I assume is the equiv of the native plugins within Portals.

> I’d strongly consider this for a web-only product, but that’s becoming more and more rare. They have accompanying https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios and https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-android projects to bridge the gap.