turbolinks-ios

Matouš Borák published a few interesting write-ups about the front-end: https://dev.to/borama/a-few-sneak-peeks-into-hey-com-technol... Basically it's a new, unreleased version of Turbolinks[1] + StimulusJS[2] The "native" apps are wrappers [3] for the webapp, but with some native integrations for navigation, etc. [1] https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks [2] https://stimulusjs.org [3] https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks-ios

It's created by Basecamp which makes Turbolinks [0], Turbolink iOS [1], and Turbolinks Android (deprecated) [2], so there's a good chance that snappiness you're seeing is due to those awesome tools! (In fact, this Github issue comment [3] seems to confirm that HEY uses Turbolinks.) On a related note, really wish things had gone this direction. Instead, it feels like React, Angular, etc. re-created the backend in the frontend, so now for most apps you essentially have two backends plus one frontend to maintain. I think as soon as our frontends started requiring controllers and routes to work we should have been like, "Hey, wait a minute..." But I guess design folks tend to know JS, so I can see how that combo won. My $0.02 from 5+ years in the industry is that you probably don't need React, but Godspeed if you think you do - just maintain

Rails Turbolinks utilizes this technique for iOS: https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks-ios Video explanation/demonstration: https://youtu.be/SWEts0rlezA

Turbolinks? https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks-ios

You're wrongfully trivializing Turbolinks 5. The whole point of using it is so that you get an incredibly responsive experience without having to resort to bolting on a front end framework and maintaining essentially two application states. This is a huge productivity boost. Furthermore, the optimizations that TL v5 provides means that you can use your webviews for mobile and get an incredibly responsive experience. That is what they are doing with Basecamp and they're able to provide a first class mobile experience on iOS, Android, a desktop app, all with a team of 12 developers (https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith-29166d02222...). That's fucking impressive. On top of that, they've release the generic iOS and Android wrappers so that you can roll your own mobile applications with Rails and Turbolinks. https://github.com