User Experience & Feedback

Implement cross-cutting feedback and perceived-performance patterns in Hotwire.

Core Workflow

1. Identify feedback need: loading, submit activity, progress reporting, optimistic updates, or transitions.
2. Prefer built-in Turbo semantics first (busy, progress bar hooks, submit/render lifecycle events).
3. Add optimistic updates only with a clear reconciliation strategy.
4. Keep transition logic bounded to explicit lifecycle events and cache/preview-safe paths.
5. Verify UX behavior on slow network, back/forward cache restores, and submission failures.

Guardrails

• Do not use fixed timeouts as a proxy for network or render completion.
• Gate animations/transitions for previews and cache restores.
• Keep submit locking/unlocking symmetric between start and end events.
• Separate UX feedback logic from domain-specific form/media/navigation implementations.

Load References Selectively

Open only the file needed for the current request.

• Turbo progress bar reuse: references/2023-07-18-turbo-drive-progress-bar.md
• Form activity indicators: references/2023-06-06-turbo-drive-form-activity-indicators.md
• Render interception and page transitions: references/2023-04-25-turbo-drive-render-interception.md
• Swiper-like transition behavior: references/2024-11-19-turbo-drive-swiper-view-transitions.md
• Frame busy spinner patterns: references/2026-01-20-turbo-frames-loading-spinner.md
• Optimistic UI with Turbo morph reconciliation: references/2024-03-26-optimistic-ui-with-turbo-8-morphs.md
• ULID-based optimistic identity strategy: references/2024-08-13-turbo-drive-ulid.md

Use references/INDEX.md for the full catalog.

Escalate to Neighbor Skills

• Form validation and submit correctness concerns: use hwc-forms-validation
• Navigation/history/cache flow concerns: use hwc-navigation-content
• Real-time push updates and stream actions: use hwc-realtime-streaming
• Media-specific playback/upload concerns: use hwc-media-content
• General Stimulus API/controller fundamentals: use hwc-stimulus-fundamentals