KSksec·Dec 22, 2020
And while we are at it, Motion (https://github.com/unabridged/motion)
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Reactive frontend UI components for Rails in pure Ruby
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| Jun 22 | 2020-06-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jun 29 | 2020-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 6 | 2020-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 13 | 2020-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 20 | 2020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jul 27 | 2020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 3 | 2020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 10 | 2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 17 | 2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 24 | 2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 31 | 2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | 2020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5 | 2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 12 | 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2 | 2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 16 | 2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 23 | 2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | 2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 7 | 2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 14 | 2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 21 | 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesWe actually built something inspired by LiveView, it's called motion!
https://github.com/unabridged/motion
In Rails 6.1This is not exactly a great characterization of turbolinks. TL definitely is great and useful for blurring the lines between server rendered and SPA, but it isn't anything like liveview. For that you're looking for something more like Motion (https://github.com/Unabridged/motion). Disclaimer, maintainer, but the comparison is much closer.
In Matestack – Reactive UIs in pure RubyIf you’re going to use view components, maybe check this out: https://github.com/unabridged/motion
In If Not SPAs, What?Been a little while since posting one of my own pieces on here, but have been hoping to get some discussion going about these new techniques that are popping up inspired by Elixir Phoenix's LiveView. Freshness in a field that has been pretty stagnant lately (server-based web apps).
Since writing the blog post I found out that there's another competing framework that might realize the design goals I'm describing in succint, self-contained fashion:
https://github.com/unabridged/motion
In React is Dead, Long live Reactive RailsAlso inspired by liveview and worth Checking out.
https://github.com/unabridged/motion
In GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on RailsWe built a gem on top of ViewComponents that works similarly to Phoenix Live View:
https://github.com/unabridged/motion
In GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on RailsYes, based on replies on Twitter, the "NEW MAGIC" is almost certainly something like "reactive ActionView::Component". ActionView::Component didn't make it into Rails 6 but will likely land in 6.1 and this news from DHH makes it seem like they're going to support some kind of real-time piece a la Phoenix LiveView. The current Rails-land answer to this is Stimulus Reflex but it falls short in a number of ways and I'm not surprised Hey didn't use it. We ended up releasing our own version of this paradigm (put simply, HTML over websockets) because we thought the Rails world needed a proper LiveView incarnation.[1]
[1] https://github.com/unabridged/motion
In DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic searchInteresting note, on Twitter DHH mentioned that they have some additional "magic" that they're using to do frontend work. It sounds like HTML over websockets, not unlike Phoenix LiveView or (tooting my own horn here) our recently released Motion library (https://github.com/unabridged/motion) which both allow you to use the server as your single source of truth while providing reactive UI components on the frontend. He indicated they'll be releasing more later this year.
In DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search