Stimulus: A Modest Proposal

In a world of ever growing front-end complexity, Stimulus is a modest JavaScript framework that augments your HTML just enough to make it shine.

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1. Stimulus: A Modest Proposal Bruno Cunha, @bruncun
2. Talking points • Modern Front-end • Stimulus • A Modest Proposal • Conclusion
3. Modern Front-end
4. Web interfaces were originally synchronous.
5. Single-page applications are faster and more fluid.
6. SPAs increase: • Complexity • Development costs • Device usage
7. Stimulus
8. Stimulus structures your behavior logic.
9. It pairs fantastically with Turbolinks.
10. It minimizes: • Complexity • Development costs • Device usage
11. A Modest Proposal
12. Swift suggested the impoverished ease their troubles by selling their children as food for the rich.
13. The JavaScript fatigued should ease their troubles by learning another framework.
14. Demo: Make adding todos fast and easy.
15. Demo: make todos editable inline. Limit editing to one todo at a time.
16. Conclusion
17. Wield sharp knives, not cutting edge.
18. Homework: remove destroyed todos from our list using Stimulus.
19. Follow @bruncun. Thanks!