Hotwire looks fantastic - having a bit of an issue with custom forms that it would be great to get some help on. I’ve created a blank hotwire project, then a simple scaffold (monkey). The CRUD operations seems to work. Form data is sent as TURBO_STREAM and is handled by the scaffold controller and …

I’m facing the same issue, it seems Turbo expects form Submissions to redirect to somewhere else. I wonder if this kind of thing should be handled by stimulus rather than turbo-frame, but tbh, It would better if turbo-frame could handle it by itself. EDIT: I was able to achieve something acceptabl…

This pull request was merged into Turbo a couple of days ago. It allows you to use the render method in conjunction with a status code like 422 to re-render forms. You’d have pull down a version of Turbo with the PR merged in since there hasn’t been a new official release yet.

But a basic search would return 20X http code, it wouldn’t work either, right?

Ah yeah, I believe it wouldn’t work with a search form. Streams may be the best solution there. You could potentially fall back to a redirect if JavaScript would be disabled.

Thanks for your replies. Getting more understanding as I play around a bit more. I was hoping to be able to install it on an existing site and slowly migrate into the Hotwire way of doing things. But the way it changes the behaviour of forms makes me think that this impossible at the moment. Unles…

Is there any way to follow the road map? To be notified / know the ETA for this exact feature, to be more specific :slight_smile:

This feature was implemented and is available in 7.0.0-beta.4.

Custom Forms - confusion

dhh January 6, 2021, 9:42am 7

We’re going to fix this by turn a GET form submission into a visit. On the road map

Form submit change history

Topic		Replies	Views
Form submit with turbo-streams response, without redirect	11	17383	March 23, 2024
Post uses HTML, not TURBO_STREAM	5	2298	May 11, 2021
Hotwire Confusion	4	621	November 26, 2022
Debugging Turbo not Handling Form	3	916	November 22, 2023
Form redirects not working as expected	21	12454	September 23, 2023

Custom Forms - confusion

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