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Rails Designer
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Rails Designer is the company blog at railsdesigner.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a front-end article on custom elements in Rails, one of three go-to reads by a commenter who leans against using Tailwind. The other linked pieces cover vanilla CSS and subgrid.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Where Rails developers come to learn and build beautiful Rails apps. Rails UI consultancy, SaaS expertise & development and Rails UI component library.
Most-linked posts?
- Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-04
What Hacker News says?
I only do front-end dev occasionally, but these are my 3 goto articles that make me lean towards not using Tailwind: 1: https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-nee... 2: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/subgrid/ 3: https://railsdesigner.com/custom-elements/ (more Rails specific)
Comment linking /custom-elements/
on “Shopify acquires Tailwind”Submitted Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements) as a story · 88 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gems of Tailwind CSS as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual loading states for Turbo Frames with CSS only as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted UI Design Tips Using Tailwind CSS for Developers as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Update page title counter with custom turbo streams in Rails as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Components in Rails Without Gems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Add Konami Codes with Stimulus as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Add a multi-step form/wizard to your Rails app as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recurring Calendar Events in Rails as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript for Rails Developers Is Coming Soon as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted String Inflectors: bring a bit of Rails into JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smarter Use of Stimulus' Action Parameters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-Pause YouTube Videos with Stimulus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turbo Drive, Frames, Streams, Morph? What to Use? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sanitize your strings in JavaScript like a Rails developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Send Requests from Stimulus Controllers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stimulus FX as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stimulus Features You (Didn't) Know as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Nested Forms in Rails with Stimulus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactor Stimulus.js Controllers to Use Change Callbacks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use CSS' only-child instead of if/else logic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Store UI State in LocalStorage with Stimulus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create a Resizable Navigation with Stimulus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Translations in Stimulus Controllers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails' Partial Features You (Didn't) Know as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Update a Progress Bar Using Turbo Streams (Using Custom Actions) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lesser Known Rails Helpers to Write Cleaner View Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why choose ViewComponent over Rails partials as a story · 1 points
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