--- title: When broadcasting a Turbo refresh is not enough: faster... description: Broadcasting a Turbo refresh in Rails/Hotwire is simple but has three downsides: an extra server round trip, a cascade of simultaneous client requests, and a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/when-broadcasting-a-turbo-refresh-is-not-enough-faster-ux-with-versioned-immediate-updates-bh1iyx6yd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: When broadcasting a Turbo refresh is not enough: faster UX with versioned immediate updates | daily.dev og:description: Broadcasting a Turbo refresh in Rails/Hotwire is simple but has three downsides: an extra server round trip, a cascade of simultaneous client requests, and a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/when-broadcasting-a-turbo-refresh-is-not-enough-faster-ux-with-versioned-immediate-updates-bh1iyx6yd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bH1iyX6Yd.png og:image:alt: When broadcasting a Turbo refresh is not enough: faster UX with versioned immediate updates og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # When broadcasting a Turbo refresh is not enough: faster UX with versioned immediate updates **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Broadcasting a Turbo refresh in Rails/Hotwire is simple but has three downsides: an extra server round trip, a cascade of simultaneous client requests, and a 500ms debounce delay. The fix is to broadcast a replace action with the rendered HTML directly from the controller using `Turbo::Streams::BroadcastStreamJob.perform_later`, bypassing debouncing. However, this introduces a race condition where out-of-order delivery can leave clients in a stale state. The solution is versioned updates: embed a `data-version` attribute in rendered elements, then implement a custom `versioned_replace` Turbo stream action in JavaScript that only applies the update if the incoming version is newer than what's currently on the page. Active Record Optimistic Locking's `lock_version` is suggested as a convenient version source. The result eliminates all original downsides while preserving race-condition safety, at the cost of losing per-user personalized payloads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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