Isomorphic App Development with Ruby and Volt
summary
Volt presents an isomorphic Ruby framework that compiles to JavaScript via Opal Ruby-to-JS transpiler, runs the same controllers, models and views on client and server, and replaces manual REST APIs with automatic data syncing over WebSockets. A live to‑do demo shows realtime sync between browsers with no extra glue code. Source maps and debugger black‑boxing keep debugging usable, file sizes stay competitive, and the project already attracts 50,000 GitHub hits.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 5:55WHAT'S THE SOLUTION? Turbo-links
- 7:12ISOMORPHIC Sharing code between client and server
- 7:31OPAL Ruby to JavaScript compiler
- 11:51STOCKHOME SYNDROME
- 15:58FRAMEWORK BLACK BOXING
- 17:44JS BRIDGE
- 30:00RECAP
- 31:20GETTING STARTED WITH VOLT Video Tutorials Docs Gitter Chat
- 32:14ROAD MAP More DataStores Rails Integration (for legacy :-)
