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

[gvim]

What about Ember? I heard a few years ago that Ember was quite the 
favourite for SPAs amongst Rails devs. Is this still the case?

gvim



On 13/06/2016 10:04, Jon Wood 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
> <mailto: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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