H1 Rails (HTML First Rails) is a boilerplate for building slick, polished web apps.

• Low Floor, High Ceiling: Extremely easy for beginners to get started with minimal setup and simple patterns based on the languages you already know (html, css, js).
• Batteries Included: For the most common UI & UX patterns & challenges (modals, tabs, toasts, tooltips etc.).
• No Build: By default, we store CSS and javascript libraries in the /public folder. This removes an entire category of debugging & deployment complexity.

Who It’s For

• Rails Developers who want even more simplicity, and/or more batteries included (solutions to common UI & UX challenges).
• Non Rails Developers who want a super simple way to build web apps without getting bogged down in some of the Rails areas with a high learning curve (Hotwire, Stimulus etc).

Enhancements & Simplifications

• Out-of-the-box support for common UI patterns like modals, toasts, tooltips, forms and other UI patterns, powered primarily by Base Styles.
• Turbo HTMX: We use HTMX instead of Turbo, for several reasons. We’ve several best practices docs for how to achieve common UX patterns using HTMX (multi step forms, type to search, etc.)

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What’s Inside

<%= inline_svg_tag("heroicons/check.svg") %>

<%= inline_svg_tag("heroicons/check.svg") %>

class MyController
  before_action :renders_in_modal, only: [:edit]
end

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