Hotwire and Turbo Streams have become the default answer for real-time applications in the Rails ecosystem. They are great for HTML-over-the-wire setups, but what if you prefer building your frontend with component frameworks like Svelte, paired with Inertia.js for server-driven routing?
When you step outside the Turbo ecosystem, real-time sync often gets cumbersome. Do you re-fetch Inertia page props on every WebSocket event? Do you write custom ActionCable subscribers and manually mutate complex client-side stores?
There’s a much cleaner way to handle real-time sync without Turbo—by placing a local database in the middle.
Meet DexieCable.
The Problem: Real-Time in Inertia Apps
