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For small UX touches like “3 minutes ago”, I don’t want to pull in a giant date library. A Stimulus controller can use Intl.RelativeTimeFormat plus a lightweight difference calculation. The server renders the ISO timestamp (via time_tag), and the cont

When updates can happen from multiple places, model-level broadcasts keep the UI consistent across tabs without sprinkling stream logic in controllers. Use after-commit hooks so broadcasts only occur once the write is durable.

Counters (likes, votes, bookmarks) are classic UI glue. I keep the counter itself in a small partial with a stable id and update it via turbo streams on create/destroy. The controller can render a turbo_stream.replace of the counter plus (optionally)

When a form submits inside a Turbo Frame, a normal redirect can sometimes feel odd (especially if the redirect response doesn’t include the matching frame). A clean approach is to set the Turbo-Location header for Turbo requests. Turbo interprets it a

A small UX win: disable the like button immediately and re-enable on failure. Turbo gives you events; Stimulus coordinates button state and the server still returns the canonical count.