Rails 5 Turbolinks appears to reload page

Question

I am still new to Turbolinks and unsure whether it is working correctly. I have a new rails app that I've created with Turbolinks enabled by default. I am using the link_to rails helper to build some links. When I click on one of the links the page reloads in the browser. I was under the impression that this should not occur as only the body should be swapped using AJAX. Is there any additional attributes I need to add to my link or additional configuration I need to set up?

Answer 1

Make sure that you have the Turbolinks js loaded in the page. If you are using webpacker and removed the default application js that used the asset pipeline you will probably need to use Turbolinks from npm, import it and then call Turbolinks.start() in your entry file.