The time is right for Hotwire

It's not exactly been a big secret that I've harbored a fair skepticism towards single-page applications over the years. Not because of some innate animosity with JavaScript, at least not the modern variety, which we first tasted in the form of CoffeeScript, then as transpiled ES Next. But because writing and updating HTML like that never felt like an appropriate solution for the kind of apps I was interested in writing.Such resistance to the proliferation of JavaScripting Everything turned into a minority position in years past. It seemed for a while that everyone were simultaneously obsessed with React, GraphQL, and the endless variations on the theme. This was The New Thing, and the wave of exuberance washed over all objections. For a while.