[LRUG] Is turbolinks/jQuery still the dominant front-end approach with Rails devs?

[Sleepyfox]

Interesting - React (the newest of the frameworks) is already more
than 3 years old. Others (Angular, Ember et al) are much older. At my
current client they're using React with Rails, and don't consider that
at all 'new' let alone 'bleeding edge'.

Modern work is moving to API+SPA, with the API in Ruby, Node or even
#serverless using Firebase or similar.

Is the Ruby community really this behind?

@sleepyfox


On 13 June 2016 at 10:04, Jon Wood <jon at ninjagiraffes.co.uk> wrote:
> I would say that it depends on the scale of your frontend at the moment. If
> you're building a web app which can function with just some generated HTML
> and the odd sprinkle of Javascript then jQuery is probably the way to go as
> you get all the benefits of Rails' gem ecosystem and years of tooling to
> build HTML quickly.
>
> If you're building a rich application then you'll probably want the extra
> structure provided by something like React or Ember, but you'll pay the
> price in initial bootstrapping of your application, and being somewhat on
> the bleeding edge. You do get the advantage of a proper API backing
> everything though, which pays off rapidly as your application gets larger.
>
> Finally, there's the option of having a REST API, and a Rails generated
> interface built on top of that. If you're web application is the only API
> client then I'm not sure I'd recommend that approach. If you need an API for
> other clients anyway then this can be a really nice way of working because
> every feature you build for any client requires API endpoints which can
> quite dramatically reduce the overheads in supporting the feature for other
> clients.
>
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 at 09:47 gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is turblinks/jQuery still the dominant approach to front-end development
>> in the Rails community or is there a shift towards Ember/Angular/React
>> backed by a Rails api?
>>
>> gvim
>>
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