Using with Turbolinks

[frederikhors]

I search in these issues for "turbolinks" work and nothing appears.

I wanna using instant.page with Turbolinks (https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks).

If I add:

<script src="//instant.page/2.0.0" type="module" defer integrity="sha384-D7B5eODAUd397+f4zNFAVlnDNDtO1ppV8rPnfygILQXhqu3cUndgHvlcJR2Bhig8"></script>

it works just on the first page I load.

What do you suggests to use with Turbolinks?

I can imagine to use some of the event in https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks#full-list-of-events, right?

[frederikhors]

Maybe an InstantPage.start() to call on every turbolinks:load event will be amazing.

What do you think?

[dieulot]

I’m planning to release a new version with a mechanism like InstantPage.start() (but by triggering an event instead of doing a function call, so that instant.page can be loaded asynchronously). Maybe that’ll solve it.

[dieulot]

I’ve talked privately with @dhh and he said he’s interested in bringing the just-in-time preloading mechanism into Turbolinks. I also plan to make an alternative to Turbolinks that uses them (in fact I already did so with InstantClick, but it lacks good documentation and a bunch of other things, I plan to reboot it). So maybe I won’t make instant.page compatible with Turbolinks in the next version, it will depend on ease of implementation, we shall see.

[vitobotta]

Hi @dieulot, so it's not possible to use instant.page with turbolinks now? Thanks

[gpakosz]

Interested in turbolinks + instant.page as well. What does it take to make the two work together?

[phacks]

I tried to get InstantPage to work with Rails to no avail, but managed to get InstantClick set up for a pretty similar result. If anybody’s interested in how I wrote a blog post about it: https://dev.to/phacks/the-rocky-road-to-implementing-link-prefetching-in-rails-oo0

[mxkyb]

Why does this not work? instant.pages EventListeners are bound to the document node, so the script shouldn't even need to get reinitialized on changes from turbolinks. And if the script is not at the end of the body it wouldn't be replaced by turbolinks.