As the lead maintainer of the Bridgetown web framework, I get work on interesting (and sometimes very thorny!) Ruby problems which veer from what is typical for individual application projects.
With version 2 of Bridgetown about to drop, I’m starting a series of articles regarding intriguing aspects of the framework’s internals. This time around, we’re taking a close look at one of the marquee features: Fast Refresh.
The Feedback Loop
Bridgetown is billed as a “progressive site generator” which offers a “hybrid” architecture for application deployments. What all this jargon means is that you can have both statically-generated content which is output as final HTML and other files to a…