Receiving an event after the form is replaced seems impossible. The element that has fired the event is no longer available and rails-ujs silently can’t do anything. There are dozens of issues and questions and people facing the same problem. Many of the answers are very old and even include jquery…

What event could we receive after a rails-ujs form replacement?

kmitov (Kiril Mitov) June 22, 2020, 4:11am 2

I’ve decided to use Stimulus for this. The connect() method of the controllers is good enough for this logic and it follows the MutationObserver - Web APIs | MDN API

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What event could we receive after a rails-ujs form replacement?

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