Building Modern Interfaces with Hotwire

Hotwire represents a paradigm shift in Rails development. Instead of building separate API endpoints and JavaScript applications, Hotwire brings modern interactivity directly to your server-rendered HTML.

What is Hotwire?

Hotwire is an umbrella term for Turbo and Stimulus—two complementary technologies that work together. Turbo handles page updates, form submissions, and navigation without full page reloads, while Stimulus adds JavaScript behaviour to HTML elements with minimal code.

The Benefits

Using Hotwire means less JavaScript to write and maintain, faster development cycles, better SEO with server-rendered content, simpler architecture, and progressive enhancement by default. You get modern interactivity without the complexity of heavy JavaScript frameworks.

Real-World Applications

Hotwire excels at building interactive features that feel modern without the complexity: real-time form validation, infinite scroll and pagination, search with instant results, modal dialogs and overlays, and live updates via Turbo Streams. Hotwire proves that you don't need heavy JavaScript frameworks to build modern, interactive web applications. Sometimes, the best solution is the simplest one.