How to add a skeleton UI to Rails with Turbo

The introduction of Hotwire in September of 2021, introduced Turbo Frames. A technique that made Internet-veterans think of the stone-age iframe-element. But with a twist.

Turbo Frames can be loaded with HTML from the server. It could be a as tiny as just a button (with a different state) or more involved: a list of messages. And it's for this latter case that having a “skeleton UI” is useful. As a list messages might mean: loading the messages, the …

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