Hi folks, we’re just a few days away until our next event. Come hear our very own Darren "Daz" Jones giving us a guided tour of their declarative alternative to Stimulus.
There will also be pizza kindly provided by Fatsoma, the first round of after-talk drinks provided by thoughtbot, and the usual Ruby-related chat. Register here <https://buytickets.at/nwrug/1927303> if you plan on attending. —Rob On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM 'Rob Whittaker' via North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Our next NWRUG is in three weeks *on 20 November* back at Colony, One > Silk Street <https://colonyco.work/one-silk-st>, our own Darren "Daz" > Jones Townsend will give us a guided tour of their declarative alternative > to Stimulus: > > *Stimulus has been a core part of Rails for nearly four years, > transforming how we use JavaScript in our applications. But as great as it > is, Stimulus controllers can sometimes feel clunky and awkward to work > with. But what if we could do better?* > > > > *In this talk, I’ll share how I set out to improve the developer > experience by creating Helium — a tiny declarative JavaScript library that > does everything a Stimulus controller can do, but directly in your views > using simple data attributes (think Tailwind for JS).I’ll demonstrate how > it works, show some real-world examples, and rework a few common Stimulus > controllers to highlight the cleaner, more expressive syntax Helium offers > and hopefully show that it might be time to ditch Stimulus...* > > > We’ll be at the venue from 6:30pm with the talk starting at 7pm. > Afterwards we’ll retire to a nearby establishment for a drink and some > pizza, kindly provided by our sponsors Fatsoma <https://www.fatsoma.com/> > and thoughtbot <https://thoughtbot.com/>. > > Register here <https://buytickets.at/nwrug/1927303> if you would like to > attend. Full details on this (and all our events) over on our website > <https://nwrug.org/events/beyond-stimulus-simplifying-javascript-in-rails-with-helium> > . > > See you soon! > > Rob and Tekin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/1571be2c-f019-4cfb-9654-13bef09da675n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/1571be2c-f019-4cfb-9654-13bef09da675n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nwrug-members/CANoh%3DCfV9FY-ttqniwpUkc-qbe6MXyK2BcDmuWY34_h2vRQQwQ%40mail.gmail.com.
