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Building Reusable UI Components With Rails 8's ViewComponents

Rails 8 introduces ViewComponents, a game-changer for managing UI logic. Reusable, testable & performant, they consolidate presentation logic into objects, making code cleaner & easier to maintain.

Rails 8 brings an exciting addition to its arsenal: ViewComponents, powered by the ViewComponent::Base class. This feature is a game-changer for managing UI logic, offering developers a clean, reusable, and testable approach to building components.

  
  
  What Are ViewComponents?

ViewComponents encapsulate a piece of your UI into a Ruby class, allowing you to define rendering logic in one place. Instead of scattering presentation logic across views, helpers, and partials, ViewComponents consolidate it into an object that’s easy to maintain and test.

  
  
  Key benefits include:


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