I am trying to understand the inner workings for Turbo 8’s new morphing feature. My specific question is: what determines when morphing will fall back to a full page refresh rather than doing the morph? And which section of the rails turbo code is this taking place in?
My details:
I have setup this demo project: GitHub - basecamp/turbo-8-morphing-demo it works fully, e.g. two browsers open, one making changes, the other one refreshes just the needed dom elements and holds the scroll position.
However, I then try opening another browser in an embedded mobile web view. This mobile web view works, however it does not morph. Every time I make a change in my desktop browser, the mobile webview detects this change and refreshes (so clearly the socket is connected) but it does a full page refresh rather than morphing the page.
I tried opening in mobile Safari and it properly morphs there.
My theory is that my mobile webview may be lacking a user agent, or has some other characteristic, which is causing Turbo 8 to decide to fallback to a full page refresh. But I haven’t been able to find this specific area of logic in within the turbo-rails repo to try and debug this myself.