We're starting a new series direct from the KD Squad's Slack: Things We Learned. We've been dropping new and/or interesting links in our #til Slack channel, so we thought it'd be nice to collect them in a post and, maybe, send out a monthly summary. Let us know if you're interested in that.

On to the learnings!

• I learned about <colgroup>s in HTML tables.
• Lewis learned about the new assignment operators in ES2021.
• Stefan learned about some of the capabilities of Hotwire in this post about server rendered live previews from thoughtbot.
• I learned about <datalist> for HTML form inputs. I've used it since then and it worked out great for that use case.
• Hotwire has been a hot topic in #til. I also posted about this thoughtbot article about typeahead.
• StimulusReflex, an alternative and/or complementary approach to server rendered interactivity, also got some link love. Here's how you might handle server rendered modal forms using CableReady and Mrujs.
• Stefan was doing some research in to ActiveRecord::Relations for an API wrapper he's working on and shared his approach to a "fake" ActiveRecord Relation.
• Adam remembered that you can customize your ~/.irbrc file with handy methods to use in Rails console sessions. I remember Jim Weirich's super custom stuff, too.
• Lewis found a nifty foreman/shoreman alternative called overmind.
• Stefan learned about Ruby String's #succ method. It'll return the successor to self. Pretty wild!
• Lewis shared an article documenting how to set up a Rails component library with Storybook.
• Lewis watched Open Source Thursdays to hear more about Hotwire.
• Lewis figured out that you can pass a custom schema to Stimulus controllers, which he then published on this exact blog!

Lots of new stuff learned and shared! We'll post what we learned this month soon. Happy Thanksgiving to the US crew.

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