Turbo Streams: WebSockets
This course covers Turbo Streams delivered over WebSockets, using a Rails app's public roadmap page as the working example. It explains the turbo-stream tag and its action verbs, how turbo_stream_from opens a subscription, and why the embedded stream name is signed. It then follows server-side broadcasts from three service objects. It explains what the refresh action does when morphing and scroll preservation are configured. It also compares explicit broadcasts in services with model callbacks such as broadcasts_refreshes. A final lesson traces one admin reorder from start to finish.
What you'll learn
- ✓The turbo-stream tag shape and its seven basic actions
- ✓Subscribing to a stream with turbo_stream_from
- ✓How signed stream names block tampered subscriptions
- ✓Broadcasting from service objects with broadcast_refresh_to
- ✓How refresh works with morphing and scroll preservation
- ✓Explicit service broadcasts versus model callbacks
What a turbo stream tag actually is
A <turbo-frame> (the last course) waits to be asked: a link or form targets it, and its content swaps. A <turbo-stream> works the other way around. It's a small, self-describing instruction that arrives and acts on its own, whether or not anyone clicked anything on the page it lands in.
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7 lessonsWhat a turbo stream tag actually is
Explains the turbo-stream tag, its seven basic actions, and how the turbo_stream builder and format.turbo_stream produce it.
Subscribing with turbo_stream_from
Shows how turbo_stream_from opens a WebSocket subscription to one named stream on the public roadmap page.
Signed stream names
Explains why turbo_stream_from embeds a signed stream name and how Turbo::StreamsChannel rejects tampered or invented tokens.
Broadcasting from the server
Follows three service objects that call broadcast_refresh_to on the catalog_roadmap stream, linked to subscribers only by name.
What refresh actually does
Explains how the refresh action differs from targeted actions and how morph and scroll preservation make it smooth.
Explicit broadcasts vs. model callbacks
Compares the broadcasts_refreshes model callback with explicit service broadcasts and why this app keeps broadcasts in services.
Putting it together: one reorder, live
Traces one admin course reorder through the service broadcast, signed subscription, refresh action and morphing update.