Week 31 - Minesweeper Multiplayer in Hotwire, Kanban Board, and more!
This week in Hotwire: Multiplayer game, Open-Closed Principle, real-time database updates, Kanban boards, Ruby gems, and more!

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Welcome to the another issue of Hotwire Weekly! This edition covers the latest Hotwire articles and videos.
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📚 Articles, Tutorials, and Videos
Exercise: Multiplayer Minesweeper with Rails and Hotwire - Radan Skorić demonstrates how to build a multiplayer Minesweeper game using Rails and Hotwire. The tutorial covers setting up real-time board updates, handling concurrent player actions, and ensuring game resilience with a robust data model.
Better Stimulus: Open-Closed Principle - Julian Rubisch published a new article on Better Stimulus in which he talks about the Open-Closed Principle in the context of Stimulus.
Broadcasting real-time database changes on a budget - Justin Searls shares how to broadcast real-time updates using Turbo and Stimulus, ActionCable, and JSONB columns in Rails. The approach focuses on efficient, cost-effective methods for keeping user data in sync across devices without heavy infrastructure.
Drifting Ruby: Kanban from Scratch - David Kimura published a comprehensive guide to building a Kanban board from scratch using Rails and Hotwire. The episode covers setting up columns, adding cards, and implementing drag-and-drop functionality to enhance task management.
Hotwire Club: Stimulus - Removing Markers from a Wavesurfer Element - Julian Rubisch published a new challange for The Hotwire Club about removing markers from a Wavesurfer music player using Stimulus.
Slides from "Developer Tooling For The Modern Hotwire & Rails Era" talk - Marco Roth shared his slides from his "Developer Tooling For The Modern Hotwire & Rails Era" talk at Madison Ruby 2024.
🧰 Libraries and Tools
marten-turbo - Turbo Helpers for the Marten Crystal web framework.
Railsboot UI - Rails View Components for Bootstrap, built using Stimulus.
🎉 Releases
hot-glue v0.6.3.3 - Simple, plug & play Rails scaffold building companion for Turbo-Rails and Hotwire.
cssbundling-rails v1.4.1 - Bundle and process CSS with Tailwind, Bootstrap, PostCSS, Sass in Rails via Node.js.
jsbundling-rails v1.3.1 - Bundle and transpile JavaScript in Rails with esbuild, rollup.js, or Webpack.
dartsass-rails v0.5.1 - Integrate Dart Sass with the asset pipeline in Rails.
sprockets-rails v3.5.2 - Sprockets for the Rails Asset Pipeline.
tailwindcss-rails v2.6.5 - Integrate Tailwind CSS with the asset pipeline in Rails.
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