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0 pointshijp10mo ago0 comments

Yeah but I wish in an alternate reality DHH chose a different route. If you go API only then you lose half of what makes rails great. It would be sick if you could render React/Vue/Svelte easily in your haml views and not have to have a js repo then figure out jwts and auth.

Dunno I loved rails, built monoliths, built api only, but when I tried sprinkling a bit of react in my views (say you only need a little bit of interaction, or want to use a react date picker) then theres all these sharp edges.

The reason I want it to be bigger is that user base helps the single dev, with help resources, up to date gems, and jobs.

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dismalaf10mo ago

> but when I tried sprinkling a bit of react in my views

If you need only a sprinkling why not vanilla JS with Stimulus? Pulling in React for only a "sprinkling" seems like overkill.

The benefit of the current approach is that you can use any vanilla JS code, and it's especially easy if it uses ES Modules.

Also the whole point of React/Vue/Svelte is that they're all complete frameworks meant to do your whole UI. Using "just a sprinkling" of these seems like the worst of both worlds.

Dunno, my app pulls in a fairly heavy JS dependency (Echarts) and it took all of 2 minutes to set it up using Stimulus.

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