Turbolinks Prefetching

prefetch.js

const hoverTime = 400
const fetchers = {}
const doc = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument('prefetch')

function fetchPage (url, success) {
  const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
  xhr.open('GET', url)
  xhr.setRequestHeader('VND.PREFETCH', 'true')
  xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'text/html')
  xhr.onreadystatechange = () => {
    if (xhr.readyState !== XMLHttpRequest.DONE) return
    if (xhr.status !== 200) return
    success(xhr.responseText)
  }
  xhr.send()
}

function prefetchTurbolink (url) {
  fetchPage(url, responseText => {
    doc.open()
    doc.write(responseText)
    doc.close()
    const snapshot = Turbolinks.Snapshot.fromHTMLElement(doc.documentElement)
    Turbolinks.controller.cache.put(url, snapshot)
  })
}

function prefetch (url) {
  if (prefetched(url)) return
  prefetchTurbolink(url)
}

function prefetched (url) {
  return location.href === url || Turbolinks.controller.cache.has(url)
}

function prefetching (url) {
  return !!fetchers[url]
}

function cleanup (event) {
  const element = event.target
  clearTimeout(fetchers[element.href])
  element.removeEventListener('mouseleave', cleanup)
}

document.addEventListener('mouseover', event => {
  if (!event.target.dataset.prefetch) return
  const url = event.target.href
  if (prefetched(url)) return
  if (prefetching(url)) return
  cleanup(event)
  event.target.addEventListener('mouseleave', cleanup)
  fetchers[url] = setTimeout(() => prefetch(url), hoverTime)
})

@hopsoft Can you please consider adding xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'text/html') to avoid triggering format.js responses on controllers that use respond_to do |block| syntax, since it's we're always looking for the HTML versions?

That fixed the ActionController::InvalidCrossOriginRequest I was getting on that controller/action.

Thanks for suggesting this. I'll get the gist updated.

Hi, thanks a lot for this gist! I've tried adding the touchstart event too for mobile but it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Cleanup event does not clear cancelled requests. To fix it use this method

function cleanup (event) {
  const element = event.target
  clearTimeout(fetchers[element.href])
  delete fetchers[element.href]
  element.removeEventListener('mouseleave', cleanup)
}

Could someone check my class of these functions? I'm not sure if I did everything right there...

https://gist.github.com/marcus-at-localhost/3e694ffa7ca226e20964908292601b3b

This no longer works with Turbo 7