CGcgarvis·Nov 24, 2014
This is what turbolinks does: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks. Nothing new, they have been doing it for 2+ years now.
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turbolinks-classic
Classic version of Turbolinks. Now deprecated in favor of Turbolinks 5.
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What it is
Classic version of Turbolinks. Now deprecated in favor of Turbolinks 5.
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HN mentions by month12 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2012-09-26 18:27:05 UTC to 2014-11-24 14:22:00 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 2012 | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Oct 2012 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Nov 2012 | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Dec 2012 | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2013 | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2013 | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Apr 2013 | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2014 | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2014 | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2014 | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
12 sourcesBy the way, if you don't want to listen to mouseover, merely listening to mousedown takes 50-70ms off loads [1]. Not ignorable.
[1] https://github.com/rails/turbolinks/pull/253#issuecomment-21...
In Show HN: JS library to make your website instantRails Turbolinks adds transition cache to make pages load in zero time
2 points · Open discussionBy 'the ready event' I'm assuming you mean the onload event. Those will break, you need to update them to listen to the 'page:ready' event instead.
The Turbolinks README has everything you need to do to make your applications ready, if you choose to use it: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks#turbolinks
In Rails 4.0: Final version releasedFuck it, lets just call it 1.0
10 points · Open discussionTurbolinks is 100% Coffeescript; you could easily add it to a Django application by copying the assets out of the gem: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks/blob/master/lib/assets/j...
In Ruby on Rails 4.0.0.beta1 releasedClickable: http://i.imgur.com/UDz2y.png
Also:
Turbolinks: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks
In Show HN: A personal GmailHey guys,
so I've been building my own Gmail for the past few weeks and would like your feedback.
Find a preview here: http://i.imgur.com/UDz2y.png
(Mouse cursor is over the "REPLY" button, to show the hover-effect)
The app you see in the screenshot is what I've been using in the past week and it starts to feel better than the gmail interface.
Just a quick explanation:
- It's conversation-based like Gmail.
- Conversations with new emails are on the left.
- Conversations may be labeled ... based on predefined filters or manually.
- Every conversation stays in the left sidebar until marked "Done" or "Pinned".
- Done emails are accessed through the "check"-button next to the "MailApp"-logo.
- Pinned emails are moved to the right sidebar. This is basically a to-do list or for future reference.
- Both sidebars may be filtered by attributes or
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labels.
- The "list"-icon, next to the filter in the left sidebar, gives you the classic gmail list in the center-panel.
Some technical background:
- It's build with Rails and PostgreSQL.
- E-Mail sending/receiving is based on the MailGun infrastructure.
- Turbolinks (https://github.com/rails/turbolinks) and Memcache for a speedy UX.
- All mail data is saved in a multi-tenant PostgreSQL db and for backup purposes in a IMAP mailbox on MailGun.
- Hosted on heroku.
I'm quite happy with the app by now and only go back to Gmail for older emails.
So my BIG QUESTION right now:
Would you even consider using the app, in case I'd make a commercial product out of it?
Would you pay for it?
Searching HN yielded that quite a few people are looking each month to leave Gmail (for various reasons),
but of course there are quite a few gotchas with my approach, especially considering trust-issues.
Let me hear what you think.
Issues like this are why Turbolinks is a bad idea
1 points · Open discussionCode link:
https://github.com/rails/turbolinks
tl;dr: it's like Plax with less control, but higher ease of implementation. Ships with the next version of rails.
In Turbolinks: update without reloading whole pageI dislike that this small gem is written in coffeescript.
https://github.com/rails/turbolinks/blob/master/lib/assets/j...
For various reasons we don't use coffeescript in our projects but now if we want to use turbolinks (which sounds great) we'll get a coffeescript dependency.
In Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax)Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax)
82 points · Open discussion