Five Things Stimulus Can do in Your Rails Application

Understanding the Power of Stimulus: Five Things You Can Achieve with Code Examples

Stimulus is a modest JavaScript framework that aims to enrich HTML by bridging the gap between it and JavaScript in a clean, clear manner. Developed by Basecamp, it’s particularly popular among Ruby on Rails developers but is broadly applicable. This article explores five key functionalities of Stimulus, each accompanied by a practical code example.

Basic Interaction Enhancement

Stimulus shines in enhancing basic interactions within a web application. Suppose you want to create a button that toggles a text display.

HTML:

JavaScript:

Form Input Handling

Stimulus can efficiently manage form inputs. For instance, you might want to display the length of the text a user types in real-time.