HTML over the Wire

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Discusses building modern web apps using the “HTML over the Wire” approach as an alternative to heavy SPAs. Covers the problems of SPA complexity, server–client state synchronization, and server-side rendering, and shows how to send pre-rendered HTML fragments to the browser (via AJAX or WebSockets) using the Turbo and Stimulus libraries.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:39"Modern" Web Development
3. 2:01Framework Comparison
4. 3:14Increasing Complexity
5. 7:00Old Principle - Revisited
6. 7:46VANILLA JAVASCRIPT
7. 9:42Our Old Friend - jQuery
8. 10:49Turbo - Principle
9. 13:02TURBO - LAZY LOADING
10. 14:48TURBO STREAMS & WEBSOCKETS
11. 20:48Turbo Streams & Multiple Targets
12. 24:25INTEGRATION & REAL-TIME API
13. 26:36Micro Frontends
14. 28:42STIMULUS
15. 31:56Advantages / Disadvantages

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