Adding Breadcrumbs to a Rails Application
6 days ago
- #Breadcrumbs
- #Rails
- #SEO
- Breadcrumbs improve user experience by helping users navigate through a site with ease.
- There are three types of breadcrumbs: hierarchical, filter or attribute-based, and history-based.
- Breadcrumbs also improve SEO by helping search engines understand site structure and by appearing in search results.
- The article explains how to add breadcrumbs to a Rails app using ViewComponent, including setting up the component, writing tests, and adding schema markup for SEO.
- The breadcrumb component can render links or text, include icons, and supports disabling Turbo for individual links.
- Adding breadcrumbs involves creating a Breadcrumb model, methods in ApplicationController to manage breadcrumbs, and conditionals in the component to handle different breadcrumb types.