Announcing Hotwire Native

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2024-09-26 07:30:08

As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a brand new, yet familiar, framework for building hybrid mobile apps.

But first, let me provide some context. Last year, shortly before Rails World 2023, we open sourced Strada, which allows you to build high fidelity native features in your hybrid Turbo Native apps. The launch was met with a lot of excitement and development. However, there was a consistent piece of feedback that we heard: the relationship between the Hotwire umbrella of libraries, Turbo + Stimulus + Strada, was quite confusing.

Strada is meant to leverage Turbo Native apps, yet the documentation and marketing for Turbo Native apps has been nearly non-existent. Further, integrating Strada into your Turbo Native apps requires effort that shouldn’t be necessary.

As we thought about it more, we saw an opportunity to make the relationship between the libraries much more clear. It made sense to consolidate the Turbo Native and Strada libraries under one roof, which would also allow us to more easily build new layers of out-of-the-box features for developers.