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  3. data/lib/brut/back_end/seed_data.rb +19 -2
  4. data/lib/brut/back_end/sidekiq/middlewares/server.rb +2 -1
  5. data/lib/brut/back_end/sidekiq/middlewares.rb +2 -1
  6. data/lib/brut/back_end/sidekiq.rb +2 -1
  7. data/lib/brut/back_end/validator.rb +5 -1
  8. data/lib/brut/back_end.rb +4 -2
  9. data/lib/brut/cli.rb +4 -3
  10. data/lib/brut/factory_bot.rb +0 -5
  11. data/lib/brut/framework/app.rb +70 -5
  12. data/lib/brut/framework/config.rb +5 -3
  13. data/lib/brut/framework/container.rb +3 -2
  14. data/lib/brut/framework/errors.rb +12 -4
  15. data/lib/brut/framework/mcp.rb +62 -1
  16. data/lib/brut/framework/project_environment.rb +6 -2
  17. data/lib/brut/framework.rb +1 -1
  18. data/lib/brut/front_end/component.rb +35 -12
  19. data/lib/brut/front_end/components/constraint_violations.rb +1 -1
  20. data/lib/brut/front_end/components/form_tag.rb +1 -1
  21. data/lib/brut/front_end/components/inputs/csrf_token.rb +1 -1
  22. data/lib/brut/front_end/components/inputs/text_field.rb +1 -1
  23. data/lib/brut/front_end/components/time_tag.rb +1 -1
  24. data/lib/brut/front_end/layout.rb +16 -0
  25. data/lib/brut/front_end/page.rb +51 -26
  26. data/lib/brut/front_end/routing.rb +5 -1
  27. data/lib/brut/front_end.rb +4 -13
  28. data/lib/brut/i18n/base_methods.rb +37 -3
  29. data/lib/brut/i18n/for_back_end.rb +3 -0
  30. data/lib/brut/i18n/for_cli.rb +3 -0
  31. data/lib/brut/i18n/http_accept_language.rb +47 -0
  32. data/lib/brut/instrumentation/open_telemetry.rb +25 -0
  33. data/lib/brut/instrumentation.rb +3 -5
  34. data/lib/brut/sinatra_helpers.rb +1 -0
  35. data/lib/brut/spec_support/component_support.rb +18 -4
  36. data/lib/brut/spec_support/e2e_support.rb +1 -1
  37. data/lib/brut/spec_support/general_support.rb +3 -0
  38. data/lib/brut/spec_support/handler_support.rb +6 -1
  39. data/lib/brut/spec_support/matcher.rb +1 -0
  40. data/lib/brut/spec_support/matchers/be_page_for.rb +1 -0
  41. data/lib/brut/spec_support/matchers/have_html_attribute.rb +1 -0
  42. data/lib/brut/spec_support/matchers/have_i18n_string.rb +2 -5
  43. data/lib/brut/spec_support/matchers/have_link_to.rb +1 -0
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  46. data/lib/brut/spec_support/matchers/have_returned_rack_response.rb +44 -0
  47. data/lib/brut/spec_support.rb +1 -1
  48. data/lib/brut/version.rb +1 -1
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  51. data/doc-src/architecture.md +0 -102
  52. data/doc-src/assets.md +0 -98
  53. data/doc-src/forms.md +0 -214
  54. data/doc-src/handlers.md +0 -83
  55. data/doc-src/javascript.md +0 -265
  56. data/doc-src/keyword-injection.md +0 -183
  57. data/doc-src/pages.md +0 -210
  58. data/doc-src/route-hooks.md +0 -59
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- # JavaScript and Front End Behavior
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- Brut does not prevent you from using any front-end framework you like. You can certainly install React and reference it in
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- `app/src/front_end/javascript/index.js`. However, Brut would like to humbly request that you not do this.
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- Brut is based around server-generated HTML and the web platform. This means that Brut would like you to use custom elements for any
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- client-side behavior you need, and to do so with progressive enhancement.
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- To that end, Brut includes BrutJS, which is a set of custom elements and ancillary JavaScript you can use to build client-side
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- behavior.
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- By default, your `index.js` will look like this:
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- import { BrutCustomElements } from "brut-js"
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- import Example from "./Example"
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- document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
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- BrutCustomElements.define()
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- Example.define()
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- `BrutCustomElements` and `BrutCustomElements.define()` will set up the custom elements bundled with Brut. `Example` shows you how to
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- ## Some Useful Brut Elements
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- Please refer to BrutJS's documentation for everything that is included, but here are a few highlights that you will find usefule.
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- ### Client Side Form Support
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- {file:doc-src/forms.md Forms} outlines Brut's server-side form support. Brut provides custom elements to allow you to unify client
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- and server side constraint validations, and make the process a bit easier to manage with CSS.
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- First, surrounding a form with a `<brut-form>` will place `data-submitted` onto the `<form>` *only* when the user attempts to submit the
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- form. You can use this in your CSS to prevent showing error messages before a user has submitted.
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- Second, you can use `<brut-cv-messages>` and `<brut-cv>` to control the error messages that are shown when the browser detects
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- constraint violations. This works with `<brut-i18n-translation>` to show translated strings.
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- Consider this ERB
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- <label>
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- <%=
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- component(
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- Brut::FrontEnd::Components::Inputs::TextField.for_form_input(form:, input_name: :name)
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- %>
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- <span>Name</span>
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- <%= constraint_violations(form:,input_name: :name) %>
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- </label>
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- {Brut::FrontEnd::Component::Helpers#constraint_violations} will render the built-in {Brut::FrontEnd::Components::ConstraintViolations}
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- component. Along with `for_form_input`, the following HTML will be generated:
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- <label>
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- <input type="text" name="name" required>
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- <span>Name</span>
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- <brut-cv-messages input-name="name">
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- </brut-cv-messages>
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- </label>
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- When any element of the form causes a validity event to be fired, `<brut-form>` will locate the appropriate `<brut-cv-messages>` and
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- insert the appropriate `<brut-cv>` elements. Suppose the user submitted this form. Since the `name` input is required, the form
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- submission wouldn't happen, and the resulting HTML would look like so:
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- <label>
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- <input type="text" name="name" required>
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- <span>Name</span>
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- <brut-cv-messages input-name="name">
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- <brut-cv input-name="name" key="valueMissing"></brut-cv>
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- </brut-cv-messages>
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- </label>
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- Now, assuming your layout used `<brut-i18n-translation>` custom elements, for example like so:
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- <brut-i18n-translation key="general.cv.fe.valueMissing">%{field} is required</brut-i18n-translation>
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- The `<brut-cv>` custom element will find this and replace its `textContent`, resulting in the following HTML:
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- <label>
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- <input type="text" name="name" required>
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- <span>Name</span>
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- <brut-cv-messages input-name="name">
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- <brut-cv input-name="name" key="valueMissing">
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- This field is required
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- </brut-cv>
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- </brut-cv-messages>
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- </label>
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- You can now use CSS to style client-side validations *and* control the content shown to the user. If there are server-side constraint
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- violations, The `ConstraintViolations` component would render them (as well as server-generated translations), for example if a name
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- was given, but it's taken already, `ConstraintViolations` would render this HTML:
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- <label>
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- <input type="text" name="name" required value="foo">
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- <span>Name</span>
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- <brut-cv-messages input-name="name">
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- <brut-cv input-name="name" server-side>
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- This value has been taken
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- </brut-cv-messages>
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- </label>
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- ### Confirming Dangerous Actions
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- Often, you want to use JavaScript to confirm the submission of a form whose action is considered dangerous to the user or hard to undo.
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- This can be achieved with `<brut-confirm-submit>`
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- <form>
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- <input type="text" name="name" required>
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- <brut-confirm-submit message="This will delete the app">
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- <button>Delete App</button>
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- </form>
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- By default, this will use the browser's built-in `window.confirm`, however you can also use a `<dialog>` element as well.
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- If the generated HTML includes a `<dialog>`, you can surround it with `<brut-confirmation-dialog>` to indicate it should be used for
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- confirmation. The `<dialog>` should have an `<h1>` where the message will be placed and two buttons, one with `value="ok"` and one
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- <brut-confirmation-dialog>
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- <dialog>
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- <h1></h1>
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- <button value="ok">Do It!</button>
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- <button value="cancel">Nevermind</button>
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- </dialog>
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- </brut-confirmation-dialog>
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- When the `<brut-confirm-submit>`'s `<button>` is clicked, this `<dialog>` is shown with the message inserted. If the user hits the
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- button with `value` of `"ok"`, the form submission goes through. Otherwise, it doesn't. The dialog is then hidden.
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- ### Ajax Form Submission
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- To submit a form via Ajax, you can use `<brut-ajax-submit>` around the `<button>` that should submit the form with Ajax. This element
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- attempts to provide a fault-tolerant user experience and will set various attributes on itself to allow you to change styling during
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- the various phases of the request.
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- If the submission works, it will fire a `brut:submitok` event that your custom code can receive and do whatever makes the most sense
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- If the submission fails with a 422, your server should return a series of `<brut-cv>` custom elements. If it does, this will be
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- inserted into the correct `<brut-cv-messages>` elements to dynamically create error messages. The element will then fire a
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- `brut:submitinvalid` event you can catch and handle to do something custom.
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- If the submission times out or fails in some other way, Brut will submit the form the old-fashioned way.
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- ### Client-Side, Accessible Tabs
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- Many UIs involve a set of tabs that switch between different views. While HTML has no built-in support for this, Brut's `<brut-tabs>`
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- custom element can captialize on the various ARIA roles required to design a tabbed interface and provide all the JavaScript behavior
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- necessary. See that element's documentation for an extended example.
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- ## Building Your Own Custom Elements
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- demonstration of this working, there is an `Example` element set up when you created your app. Assuming your app's prefix was `cc`
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- when you created it, the `Example` element works like so:
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- When the browser renders this—assuming JavaScript is enabled—it will render the following:
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- You wouldn't want to do this, but this simple element demonstrates both how to make your own and that custom elements in your app are
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- properly configured.
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- This element is very close to a vanilla custom element, but it extends `BaseCustomElement`, which is provided by BrutJS, which includes
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- z few quality-of-life improvements. Let's walk through the code.
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- First, we extends `BaseCustomElement` (which extends `HTMLElement`) and define a static attribute, `tagName` that will be the
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- The `show-warnings` attribute, if placed on the element's HTML, configures `this.logger` from `BaseCustomElement` to allow output of debug messages. This allows you to easily debug your element's behavior in development, but remove them from production. We'll see that in a bit.
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- Notice the last line where we call `this.logger.info`. If `show-warnings` is omitted from the HTML, this message isn't shown anywhere. If `show-warnings` *is* present, this message will show up in the console. This can be useful for understanding why your element isn't working.
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- # Keyword Injection
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