Turbo-Powered Web Apps - Modern Web Applications with Plain HTML

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Introduces Turbo (from Basecamp/Hotwire) as an alternative to JS-heavy frameworks like Angular or React, showing how to build modern web apps by sending only HTML from the server and rendering there. Demonstrates concrete features from login and navigation with Turbo Drive to forms using Turbo Streams, so you can evaluate whether Turbo’s server-rendered, HTML-over-the-wire approach fits your app.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 8:27Navigation in classic server-side applications
3. 10:54Navigation in server-side applications + Turbo
4. 16:02From pages to Turbo Frames
5. 16:49Turbo Frame Request
6. 19:12Breaking out of Turbo Frames
7. 20:12Form in Turbo Frame
8. 21:07Lazy Turbo Frame
9. 24:06Form with Turbo Stream
10. 27:22Server-Sent Events (SSE) via Turbo Stream
11. 28:37Server-Sent Events (SSE) via WebSocket

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