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by tomlagier 2181 days ago
Turbolinks is a full front-end framework. It just makes you manage the DOM diffing yourself by annotating nodes with various data attributes so that they are replaced, persisted and cached properly as navigation occurs.

It might be smaller or faster than other frameworks, but it definitely has much of the complexity and pitfalls of its brethren.
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welearnednothng 2181 days ago
Hrmmm... we have very different experiences with Turbolinks. Maybe older versions were more like that, but v5 is definitely not. Turbolinks doesn't look at the page at a node level, it replaces the <body> tag outright for each visit. You may want to turn Turbolinks off for a specific link, or make a DOM element that holds some sort of JS-driven state permanent across page loads, but there's really not much you _can_ do on a node level and the times you do use those things are certainly the exception, not the rule.
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