# This site is now powered by Turbolinks

DevFeed: [This site is now powered by Turbolinks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/this-site-is-now-powered-by-turbolinks-37863.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://carlosbecker.com/posts/turbolinks/>)

Author: Carlos Alexandro Becker

Published: 2013-12-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Carlos Becker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/carlos-becker.md>)

Topics: [Rails](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rails.md>), [Jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jekyll.md>), [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Less](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/less.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/npm.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jekyll.md>), [less](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/less.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/npm.md>), [rails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rails.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial describing how the author added Turbolinks to a Jekyll site by obtaining and compiling its JavaScript, integrating it with other assets, and addressing issues involving styles, Twitter buttons, Disqus loading, and progress indicators.

## Source excerpt

I think that turbolinks is great: it makes it easy to add AJAX PushState to your Rails Applications. The only problem with that is that we can't use it any WEB application, because it's a Ruby Gem. So I did some ugly-but-easy hacks and add it to this very site. I will describe the steps below.