Turbo

Health v2 · maintenance only

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7377 stars · 492 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Turbo is a JavaScript library from the Hotwire stack that accelerates links and form submissions, decomposes pages into lazily loaded frames, and streams HTML page changes over WebSocket or SSE. It lets server-rendered applications feel like single-page apps without writing custom JavaScript, and pairs with Turbo Native for iOS and Android apps.

Use cases

• make a server-rendered app feel like a single-page application without writing JavaScript
• update parts of a page in real time over WebSocket using only HTML
• lazy-load independent sections of a page with Turbo Frames
• accelerate form submissions and navigation without full page reloads
• wrap a web app in native iOS and Android shells with Turbo Native
• add reactive UI to a Rails monolith via the turbo-rails gem

When to choose

• you have a server-rendered app (especially Rails) and want SPA-like speed without a JavaScript frontend framework
• you want real-time page updates delivered as HTML over WebSocket or SSE
• you prefer HTML-over-the-wire over building and maintaining a JSON API plus SPA
• you want to reuse your web app as the core of native mobile apps

When to avoid

• you need a highly interactive client-side UI with complex local state and offline support
• your frontend is already built with React, Vue, or another SPA framework
• you need a JSON API for third-party clients rather than HTML delivery
• you require fine-grained client-side rendering control that HTML-over-the-wire cannot provide

Facets

library · maturity stable

frontend-framework ssr websocket templating web-development frontend browser hotwire html-over-the-wire turbo-drive turbo-frames turbo-streams turbo-native ruby-on-rails spa-alternative nodejs web-server

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