Turbolinks
Turbolinks makes web app navigation faster by fetching pages, swapping the body, and merging the head without full page reloads.
What is Turbolinks?
Turbolinks is a JavaScript library that speeds up navigation in traditional server-rendered web applications. It intercepts link clicks, fetches the new page in the background, and efficiently updates only the changed parts of the current page (the body and merged head elements). This eliminates full page reloads, giving users a faster, more app-like experience without requiring a full client-side JavaScript framework.
Developers building server-rendered web applications (like those using Ruby on Rails, Django, or similar frameworks) who want to improve perceived performance and user experience without migrating to a heavy single-page application architecture.
Turbolinks offers a lightweight, drop-in solution to achieve single-page application speed while maintaining a simple, server-centric development workflow. It requires minimal changes to existing code, respects web standards, and avoids the complexity and overhead of full client-side frameworks.
Overview
Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster
Use Cases
Best For
- Speeding up navigation in server-rendered Ruby on Rails applications
Related Projects
Found a gem we're missing?
Open-Awesome is built by the community, for the community. Submit a project, suggest an awesome list, or help improve the catalog on GitHub.
