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turbo:load not fired on initial page load when clicking on links #781

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@Splines

Maybe I'm doing something fundamentally wrong, but the following scenario is not working as expected.

🎈 Expected

According to the Turbo docs:

Turbo Drive triggers a series of events during navigation. The most significant of these is the turbo:load event, which fires once on the initial page load, and again after every Turbo Drive visit.

🎈 Actual

Given some views:

<%#  app/views/playground.html.erb %>
Hello to the playground

<div>
  <%= link_to products_path do %>
  Go to products
  <% end %>
</div>
<%# app/views/products/index.html.erb %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "product.js" %>

<h1>Products#index</h1>
<p>Find me in app/views/products/index.html.erb</p>

and the according JS

// app/javascript/product.js
console.log("Hello from product.js");

document.addEventListener("turbo:load", function () {
  console.log("turbo:load triggered in product.js");
});

we get the following behavior, i.e. the first page visit does not trigger a turbo:load when clicking on a link:

rails-turbo.mp4

When directly vising the /products page without clicking on a link, the turbo:load event triggers on the initial page load as expected:

rails-turbo-direct-visit.mp4

🎈 Reproduction

See https://github.com/Splines/rails-turbo-repro for a reproduction.

🎈 Versions

  • Rails version: 8.1.2
  • Rack version: 3.2.5
  • Ruby version: ruby 3.4.7 (2025-10-08 revision 7a5688e2a2) +YJIT +PRISM [x86_64-linux]

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