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0 pointswoutr_be6y ago0 comments

My background is mainly frontend, but I'm well versed in backend as well. I've been actively advocating at my company to stop with this whole separate frontend and backend, and instead just return plain HTML and some basic JavaScript when needed.

In most of my personal projects I've been following this approach too, and I must say, I'm so much more productive. I don't find myself constantly switching between browser-, terminal and VS Code-windows. I don't have to do validation twice anymore, and know perfectly where all my data is coming from.

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jdnenej6y ago· 1 in thread

I built a SPA and found making the API and linking everything up to be needless overhead. The way I find works best is using rails templates to simply insert a div with all the data needed in the attributes and then having react render everything.

woutr_beOP6y ago

That's what we used to do years ago, just render a script tag with all the data required, and then use JavaScript to link it up in the views. But I feel if that's what you're doing, you might as well use a templating engine, and put all the data where it belongs.

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