User Interfaces
Turbo
App Feel Without App Complexity
Turbo is the heart of the Hotwire stack and makes classic web applications as fast and fluid as single-page apps — without their complexity. Page transitions happen without a visible reload, individual areas of the page update independently of each other, and real-time updates reach the browser as soon as something changes on the server.
The decisive difference for your budget: there is no second frontend project. No separate React or Angular team, no duplicated business logic, no API layer that only exists so the frontend can talk to the backend. The application is rendered on the server — that's faster to develop, easier to maintain, and search-engine friendly out of the box.
We use Turbo in more than 20 of our projects — from internal business applications to public portals. Experience shows: teams ship features measurably faster because every function is built once instead of twice.
And if a mobile app is wanted later, the investment pays off twice: with Hotwire Native, the same web application becomes a real iOS and Android app — without redeveloping the product.
What Turbo means for your project
One stack instead of two
Frontend and backend remain one application. That cuts development and maintenance costs significantly — every function is built once, not twice.
Targeted updates instead of reloads
Turbo Frames update exactly the part of the page that has changed. The application feels like an app — but stays a robust, maintainable website.
Faster to market
Fewer moving parts mean shorter development cycles. New features go live in days, not weeks — and the team stays small and efficient.
Highlights
- Responsive interfaces without single-page-app complexity
- One team, one technology stack — no duplicated business logic
- Server-side rendering: strong SEO out of the box
- Real-time updates with Turbo Streams and Mercure
- A direct path to a native app with Hotwire Native
- In production use in more than 20 Dekkode projects
