Theo dug into Hey and Hotwire only a day ago and has a less than flattering take. Not on the concept necessarily but some implementations.
In the video he sets the chrome throttle option to slow 3G, and that adds large restrictions on bandwidth, and a ton of latency. He states that he is not doing so, and that adding latency can't be done in the browser. That is literally what the option does.
If you add seconds of latency then requests will take seconds, who would imagine...
A. The complaint about how every keypress goes to the server says literally nothing about HTML over the wire. It’s obviously how Hey chose to do things (or it was a bug), but Theo should be experienced enough to know that most approaches don’t need to be like this. Attributing a sloppy implementation by Hey onto a video about Rails as a whole is inflammatory.
B. And if he isn’t, and doesn’t realize that HTML over the wire doesn’t mean you can’t have any JavaScript, he should stop talking about what he does not understand.
C. This is personal taste, but a man with his hair style shows he can’t recognize good taste if it hit him in the face.
This is why we abandoned DHTML 2 decades ago, invested in jQuery to encapsulate variations in JavaScript across browsers and worked hard on standardizing JS so you could write code once and have it work across vendors.
This is how I’ve implemented my website. I am quite aware of how this is done, I suggest you look further into it.
Idk why he does videos like this because it ends up reflecting poorly on Vercel or other companies he's associated with.
I hate how there are JS influencers now. And I hate how they repeatedly cause drama for clicks. There will be a fresh idiotic topic bubbling up every few weeks. It will be semicolons soon, I am sure of it. I hate it.