Authors: Vladimir Dementyev, Principal Backend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech EditorTopics: Rails, Hotwire, Ruby, JavaScript
Read about the techniques and tools we used to build a slick-looking interactive multi-step form with Rails and Hotwire for one of our clients.
Picture this: one day your product, which was built with Ruby on Rails in a canonical HTML-first (Hotwire) fashion, gets an "off-world" feature request, namely, building a highly-customizable and amazingly-interactive user interface. You stare at Figma mockups scratching your head and mulling an unspeakable question: "Is the Renaissance at an end? Should we reach for React now?" Before you abandon ship, let me share the tips and tricks we devised while building a sophisticated multi-step form that rivals any SPA experience for one of our clients, SumIt.
