Introducing: Beautiful Layouts for Your Rails App
I am excited to introduce something entirely new to Rails Designer, the premier UI components library for Rails: layouts! 🥳
A layout is a template that wraps around a view, providing a common structure and shared HTML elements for multiple screens. The default layout is application.html.erb that typically wraps your entire app. But almost all Rails SaaS apps use multiple other layouts.
Most common is the one for the public screens, eg. the sign up or log in pages. How does this work?
class SessionsController < ApplicationController
layout "authentication"
# …
end
That layout "authentication" part is key. Learn all about layouts in Rails in this article.
For starters (and to get some feedback from the many users of Rails Designer) I have added three authentication layout variants. I have plenty more ideas, but love to hear your feedback.
Want to read me more?
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Over to you…
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