Stimulus and Ajax
Explore how to implement client-server communication in Rails applications using Stimulus and Ajax. Understand how to make asynchronous fetch calls with async and await for efficient data retrieval and update in your frontend code.
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Usually, when we talk about communication between the client and server, we are referring to the client calling the server to receive data. Let’s look at how we would make those calls in our Stimulus code.
Making Ajax calls
The simplest mechanism for making Ajax calls in modern JavaScript is with the fetch function and the async/await syntax for handling asynchronous behavior.
The Rails UJS library provides an
ajaxmethod, but the ...