News from Betterstimulus - January 2025

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Julian Rubisch
February 11, 2025

Dear subscribers,

welcome to a late follow-up to what's new in my surroundings!

New Hotwire Club Challenges

In January, I've written a new challenge that extends the "Swiper with view transitions" example by a new feature - autoplay:

It's a nifty example of how you can spice up your marketing page with an autoplaying slider using just vanilla Turbo frames and minimal amounts of additional Javascript - as compared to including a whole library in your bundle.

Upcoming Hotwire Club Videos

As promised, I'm busy assembling content to be recorded as video walkthroughs. This time, we'll be actually using Rails (I know 😅) and the first two videos are going to be the most popular ones according to my site analytics as well as the Google search console:

Writing

I've written a blog post on how to improve pagination performance using the pagy gem and Rails' asynchrous capabilities:

And that was it for January! I hope to make some progress regarding the video walkthroughs soon and will keep you posted!

Hey, it’s Julian 👋

You probably know me from one of my open source endeavors (StimulusReflex, CableReady, TurboBoost) or one of the info products I built.

But apart from this, I’m a freelance Ruby on Rails consultant with a focus on simplicity, aesthetics and code quality. I especially know Reactive Rails technologies like Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus) inside out and can help you transition to a brighter future with less tech debt and more flexibility.

I’ve got the following offerings for you: