DevInLounge - HTML1 vs Current Ruby on Rails Chat

Ever wonder how far web chat has come? Back in the HTML1 days, 'real-time' chat meant full page reloads on every message... painful! Fast-forward to today: Ruby on Rails makes real-time chat elegant with Action Cable (WebSockets), Hotwire/Turbo, and minimal frontend hassle. In this video, I rebuild the SAME simple chat app twice: BEFORE: Classic early-2000s style – pure HTML forms, ERB views, page refreshes (or crude polling if you're fancy) NOW: Modern Rails 7/8 – Action Cable for live updates, Stimulus controllers, Turbo Streams for seamless UX