Turbolinks No Longer Developed

[billksun]

The Turbolink GitHub repo has been archived. Are there any plans to replace this dependency, or take over the maintenance? I am mainly concern with keeping up-to-date with all the NPM security bumps.

[MonaMayrhofer]

It should be mentioned that htmx, which integrates very well with ihp anyways, has a feature that pretty much replaces turbolinks, called Boosting.

Just add htmx to your scripts and then add hx-boost="true" to the body in your Layout, and all anchors are promoted to ajax requests that swap out the page.

Also, dont forget to remove the turbolinks scripts

Htmx also supports morphdom, so even turbolinksMorphdom.js is covered.

A replacement for turbolinksInstantClick.js would be the htmx-preload extensions

[mpscholten]

Maybe we should remove turbolinks from the default IHP boilerplate then and then recommend using htmx

[MonaMayrhofer]

Its definitely worth looking into!
Htmx comes with a lot of other stuff too tho, so shipping it by default would probably make the template more opinionated

But stripping turbolinks and just recommending htmx sounds like a good idea😁

[amitaibu]

I think one of the big appeals of IHP is that it feels like SPA out of the box. So I think that if we take Turbolinks out, we should put htmx in and not just recommend it. Or said differently, we can have the docs be about how to remove htmx.