Introduction to Stimulus Reflex

[@jordimarti1580]

I definitely want to see more about Stimulus Reflex!

[@GorailsTV]

You got it!

[@oli2016]

I've been reading about Pheonix live view and Rails Stimulus Reflex over the past couple of days. It's pretty exciting, it seems like a really elegant way to have reactive apps. I've always thought the huge amount of code on the front-end doesn't seem quite right.

[@dougson_]

Your channel is a gem! I've learn good stuffs about stimulus reflex. Thank you! Your vim setup is awesome, and If you don't mind, can you share how you got that working?

[@GorailsTV]

I used to use a thing called Janus for Vim but now I use a bunch of plugins. You can find them in my dotfiles repo. GitHub.com/excid3/dotfiles

[@dougson_]

I appreciate the reply! Thanks a lot

[@prophetjamz94]

I JUST had to do some AJAX code on a project for work... You sir are a hero

[@cartervisuals]

More? Silly question... of course we want more.

[@jeancarloschechnner1213]

Cool, I hope you make more videos about stimulus reflex, Thanks

[@GorailsTV]

Absolutely will do

[@sethtucker8963]

Just worked this into a production project of mine. Wasn't exactly as easy as this demo was, but it sure beat writing all my own javascript for dynamically updating small partials on the page or dynamically changing data in modal windows.

[@GorailsTV]

Yeah! And cable ready should make a lot of those nuances easier. I'm making a new Trello clone using it and it's interesting to see the different approaches and mindset shift.

[@burmashave]

Would love to see more on this. The question I (always) have is: how well does it play with turbolinks?

[@GorailsTV]

Perfectly out of the box because it uses stimulus

[@jigarbhatt7890]

Stimulus Reflex is awesome. Great explaination.

[@ibjacked]

This looks really cool! Wouldn't replacing the entire dom introduce a noticeable redraw on anything more than a super simple page?

[@GorailsTV]

It is Dom diffed so only the parts that changed will be updated

[@ibjacked]

@@GorailsTV Ok, ok, very cool! Gonna have to check this out :)

[@alexggk]

Yesterday I started building a shopping list application and I was thinking about how to save bought items and today you put this video on youtube, nice :) thank you

[@GorailsTV]

Perfect timing!

[@nandasuhendra3495]

its very amazing, i wanna try it on my project

[@lucasarantes9028]

Great video! I was wondering if it's possible to trigger an update on that page when someone else, in a different browser, adds a todo, is it?

[@GorailsTV]

I think you'd have to use cable ready for that. Don't think there's anything in stimulus reflex itself for it.

[@LuisCarlosHernandezMacias]

Hi, just found this and it looks amazing. But I got a question, do you see HotWire and stimulusReflex living together in the same project?

[@GorailsTV]

They definitely can. I'd recommend trying to build everything you can. With Hotwire first and then jump into reflex as needed.

[@GNUinos]

Great! I love Stimulus Reflex!

[@hellosub01]

Is it possible to use Google MAP API like Places or Static map in Stumulus Reflex?

[@GorailsTV]

Yep, check out the episode I did on it recently. gorails.com/episodes/google-maps-places-autocomplete-with-rails

[@hellosub01]

@@GorailsTV Thank you for the reply. I watched that episode like 5 times which was awesome. However, what I asked was about Stimulus Reflex not about Stimulus js. I just want to know if Google MAP API can be implemented without Javascript at least on the face of it. BTW, I am a big fan of yours. Thanks.

[@carlosramseyer4617]

@@hellosub01 Hi, take a look at this, it might help you meetandrearocca.com/blog/reactive-map-with-rails-stimulus-reflex-and-mapbox/

[@skalippanbalippan6972]

is there is a way to debug stimulus?

[@bliaxiong6439]

is that a ninefold t-shirt?...lol, i have one of those!!!

[@GorailsTV]

Hahaha yes it is! I’ve got two of them. 🤓

[@MatthewKennedyUK]

What’s the difference between Stimulus JS and Stimulus Reflex?

[@GorailsTV]

Stimulus is the foundation and is just a Javascript library. Reflex uses Stimulus to refresh the page using ActionCable.

[@alexggk]

Do I need Redis if I want to deploy an application that uses Stimulus reflex on production? Some functionality does not work.

[@sethtucker8963]

Yes. I was using Postgres's pub/sub adapter for ActionCable, but it looks like the payloads that StimulusReflex sends are too large, so the 'reflexes' don't end up being fully executed

[@owlboom6458]

@@sethtucker8963 There is 8k limit size for data payload in postgresql subpub ac adapter...

[@ministerstein]

What is the difference between Stimulus Reflex and turbolinks?

[@GorailsTV]

Totally different. Turbolinks intercepts links and makes Ajax requests to navigate to another page faster. Stimulus Reflex can listen to any JavaScript event and uses websockets to update the page but does no navigation.

[@ministerstein]

@@GorailsTV Ah, I see. Thanks :)

[@elisson357]

Impressive!

[@vhuerta]

So know we need to learn this weird reflex syntax in order to avoid learn js, cool

[@GorailsTV]

Hahaha

[@93stiven]

rails 7 please :(