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Sometimes the DOM updates but the browser tab title stays stale (e.g., unread count, active chat room). A neat Hotwire trick is a custom Turbo Stream action that sets document.title. The server emits a <turbo-stream action='set_title'> with a te

When appending new content (like a new message), I sometimes want to scroll it into view automatically. Rather than adding JS in the controller, I use a custom turbo stream action scroll_into_view that finds the target element and calls scrollIntoView

Sometimes you need to attach a header to every Turbo request (like a feature-flag variant, or a client version). Turbo emits turbo:before-fetch-request, which lets you mutate the outgoing request before it is sent. I keep the handler tiny and global (

After a successful inline create, I usually want to clear the form. You can replace the whole form partial, but sometimes you want to preserve other state (like which field was focused) and simply reset values. A clean Hotwire approach is a custom Tur