This application is an example of how to develop an interactive web page using:

• Rails
• Rails' Unobtrustive JavaScript
• Turbolinks
• StimulusJS

The commit history is intentionally meticulous and verbose.

The intent behind this repository is to:

• serve as an example of real-world application built in a server-rendered monolith
• demonstrate how to iteratively build up a set of features over time, starting with boring standards based HTML, then extending that behavior with JavaScript
• demonstrate how and when to progressively enhance a feature that works outside of a JavaScript-capable browser environment

When creating this repository, deliberate effort was exerted to strike a balance between:

• explicit and verbose (HTML, model, controller) code versus "clean" and well-factored Rails code
• newer, terser JavaScript syntax (arrow functions, destructuring, etc) versus more familiar, approachable syntax
• small and focussed diffs that represent the minimal amount of changes necessary to integrate with newer libraries and concepts versus real-world feature-development style commits
• emphasizing outside-in, test-driven developed, production-ready code versus emphasizing educational and approachable implementation code

Some other things to note:

• The data model is inspired by a real-world application, but simplified for the sake of demonstration
• The CSS, while important and worth explaining on its own, is treated as a peripheral implementation detail
• One of the original project's areas of focus was accessibility. For the sake of this demonstration, most of the accessibility work involved in the original project has been omitted
• The number of both JavaScript and Ruby dependencies is intentionally limited
• The project uses Rails defaults as much as possible (i.e. MiniTest instead of RSpec, CurrentAttributes, form_with instead of simple_form, etc)
• There is no internationalization. Page's copy and labels are hard-coded directly into the HTML
• There are additional optimizations that could be made for the sake of performance. Those optimizations have been omitted from this repository

To develop the application locally, check it out with git then run the setup script:

$ git clone [email protected]:seanpdoyle/select-your-own-seat.git
$ cd select-your-own-seat
$ bin/setup
$ rails server

Once the rails server command is running, visit the page at http://localhost:3000.