Jan 13 路 3 min read 路 In ASP.NET Core 9 (part of .NET 9), a View Component is a powerful feature used to create reusable, independent UI units that contain both logic and a view. Think of it as a "Mini-Controller". Unlike a standard Partial View (which depends on the pare...
Join discussionAug 13, 2024 路 6 min read 路 Today I was writing some tests and dug into a little bit of ViewComponent and Capybara. Most of time you read a tutorial and just kind of get whatever done, here I'm going to explain in detail what my test is doing and why it's important. 馃挕 If you'...
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Aug 30, 2022 路 6 min read 路 TailwindUI has a nice looking calendar component I can use for this task. Here is what it will look like: And here is the component in action being used to set a value for a date input: https://www.loom.com/share/5aba00620a15484baa3f7a6fb08f617d Let...
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Jun 30, 2022 路 4 min read 路 At the moment the only way to add new records is using the scaffolded "New" page. Not only is it pretty uninspiring to look at it, using it means navigating away from the index page to do so. Instead I'll let users add records directly from the inde...
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Jun 23, 2022 路 9 min read 路 At the moment the index pages for the application show all available records and have no way to filter, search or sort at all. In this blog I'll tackle the filtering and sorting aspects with a tool I have used before called Ransack. I have not seen a...
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Jun 20, 2022 路 5 min read 路 So far the user interface for my application has been built using a combination of views (including partial views) and helper methods. An alternative exists called ViewComponent. This is a way of encapsulating a single user interface element into a r...
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