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This book will help you to learn Hotwire with Django in systematic way.

By the end of this book, you will be able to:

1. Learn Howtwire includes Turbo and Stimulus, and what problem they can help solve.
2. Jump start frontend project bundled by Webpack.
3. Setup Turbo and Stimulus.
4. Learn how page navigation works in Turbo Drive
5. Understand what is cache in Turbo Drive and how preview works.
6. Learn what is Turbo Frame and how it works.
7. Build Inline Editing feature with Turbo Frame.
8. Learn what is Stimulus and how Stimulus Controller work.
9. What is Stimulus Values, Targes, and Actions
10. Use Stimulus to build a Datetime picker and improve form submission process.
11. Understand how to use events to do communication among Stimulus controllers
12. Build Type as search feature with Stimulus, Turbo and Django.
13. Learn what is Turbo Stream and how it works.
14. How to build Collaborative Editing based on Websocket and Turbo Stream

With Hotwire, we can bring SPA-like experience to our Django web app:

1. We do NOT need heavy frontend solution such as React, Vue
2. We do NOT need JSON and Django REST framework
3. We will use Django form, Django templates and they still rock.

Changelog:

2.0.0 Released 2023-06-20

1. Upgrade to Django 4.2
2. Upgrade to Turbo 7.3
3. Upgrade to Stimulus 3.2.1
4. Add content about Stimulus Outlets

1.0.0 Released 2022-05-27