For some reason, my controller is being initialized twice. At the moment, there is only one item on the page that uses this controller, but if I log when initialize is run, then I see two messages. What could be causing this? The reason for my concern is that some HTML is modified so if the contr…

The only time I’ve seen this happen is in conjunction with Turbolinks (as you mentioned) when it was set up incorrectly. Can you try to provide a minimal example showing the issue?

Thanks Scott, I will see if I can put a simple demo together for you (it shouldn’t be too much trouble).

Controller initialized twice

javan May 22, 2018, 9:35pm 4

See https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/controller-initialized-twice-when-visiting-from-a-turbolinks-page/17/3:

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Controller initialized twice

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