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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.

About the Author

MichaelYin

Michael Yin is a full stack developer from China, and he loves to write high-quality tutorial about programming.

He has published 5 books on Leanpub.

• The Definitive Guide to Hotwire and Django
• Build SPA with React and Wagtail
• The Definitive Guide to Next.js and Wagtail
• Build Blog With Wagtail CMS
• Build Blog with React (SSR) and Wagtail
• Ultimate Guide To Scrapy

He also published Celery courses on testdriven.io

• The Definitive Guide to Celery and Flask
• The Definitive Guide to Celery and Django
• The Definitive Guide to Celery and FastAPI

He is also the founder of a Digital Agency AccordBox and available for remote job.