If you're developing modern single-page applications with Ruby on Rails, you're most likely using some fancy JS framework for your UI to be updated nicely without page reloads. And there is not much you can do without using them; that's kind of a standard these days... until Rails got Hotwire.
With Hotwire, you can get fast and responsive web applications without writing a ton of Javascript. Well, sounds great, but what is Hotwire? In this article, we'll go through the basics of Hotwire and build a sample app using it.