Form submit with turbo-streams response, without redirect

[lakim]

Have a look a this post for a nice solution to this problem using request.js:

Triggering Turbo Frame with JS

The requestSubmit method did not work in my case, I think because the search form was already nested in higher level form (autocomplete field in a form). What I like to do now for simple actions that trigger a Turbo Stream is to use request.js to send the HTTP request. It has a responseKind option that you can set to turbo-stream. It will set the Accept Header to text/vnd.turbo-stream.html so the backend will respond with a Turbo Stream. I think this trick deserves to be better known from Hot…