Core

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.).

Who It's For

Existing Rails Developers who want even more simplicity, and/or more batteries included (solutions to common UI & UX challenges).
Developers new to Rails as the most approachable way to explore Ruby & Rails ideas without getting bogged down in some of the areas with a high learning curve (Importmaps, Hotwire, Stimulus).

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.
No Build: By default, we store CSS and javascript libraries in the /public folder. This removes an entire category of debugging & deployment complexity.
HTMX instead of Hotwire/Turbo: We also have several best practices docs for how to achieve common UX patterns using HTMX (multi step forms, type to search, etc.)

Playbooks

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