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Tweak Turbo to Provide a Slightly Better Experience

Tweak Turbo to Provide a Slightly Better Experience

Learn about having a better experience in our Rails application.

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Turbo’s impact on view management

In order to effectively manage the behavior of our views and any JavaScript that is needed, we need a solid baseline of behavior on which to build. Rails provides this, with one tiny exception: Turbo’s default setting for showing a progress bar.

Turbo (formerly called Turbolinks) hijacks all clicks and form submissions and replaces them with Ajax calls. It then replaces the <body> of the page with whatever the <body> is of the returned result. This is ostensibly to make every page faster, but ...