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Until today we got the following episodes.

Episode 1: Basic widgets

The first episode explains the concepts of widgets in Rails and gives a brief overview about its features and power.

Episode 2: Widget states and rendering

The second episode discusses widget states, the #render API and the concepts of state-args.

Episode 3: Event bubbling

The third episode is about simple event bubbling in widget trees. Easy.

Episode 4: Event messaging / Partial updates

The fourth episode shows how to use event payload data for inter-widget communication. We also discuss how to update only parts of widgets and refactoring partials to separate widget states.