<div dir="ltr">I think Javascript feels pretty bleeding edge all the time to me, simply because everything is in a constant state of flux. Maybe I just need to stop chasing the new shinyness, but whenever I start a new project with React I end up relearning half of what I did last time because its changed again.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 at 10:14 Sleepyfox <<a href="mailto:sleepyfox@gmail.com">sleepyfox@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Interesting - React (the newest of the frameworks) is already more<br>
than 3 years old. Others (Angular, Ember et al) are much older. At my<br>
current client they're using React with Rails, and don't consider that<br>
at all 'new' let alone 'bleeding edge'.<br>
<br>
Modern work is moving to API+SPA, with the API in Ruby, Node or even<br>
#serverless using Firebase or similar.<br>
<br>
Is the Ruby community really this behind?<br>
<br>
@sleepyfox<br>
<br>
<br>
On 13 June 2016 at 10:04, Jon Wood <<a href="mailto:jon@ninjagiraffes.co.uk" target="_blank">jon@ninjagiraffes.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> I would say that it depends on the scale of your frontend at the moment. If<br>
> you're building a web app which can function with just some generated HTML<br>
> and the odd sprinkle of Javascript then jQuery is probably the way to go as<br>
> you get all the benefits of Rails' gem ecosystem and years of tooling to<br>
> build HTML quickly.<br>
><br>
> If you're building a rich application then you'll probably want the extra<br>
> structure provided by something like React or Ember, but you'll pay the<br>
> price in initial bootstrapping of your application, and being somewhat on<br>
> the bleeding edge. You do get the advantage of a proper API backing<br>
> everything though, which pays off rapidly as your application gets larger.<br>
><br>
> Finally, there's the option of having a REST API, and a Rails generated<br>
> interface built on top of that. If you're web application is the only API<br>
> client then I'm not sure I'd recommend that approach. If you need an API for<br>
> other clients anyway then this can be a really nice way of working because<br>
> every feature you build for any client requires API endpoints which can<br>
> quite dramatically reduce the overheads in supporting the feature for other<br>
> clients.<br>
><br>
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 at 09:47 gvim <<a href="mailto:gvimrc@gmail.com" target="_blank">gvimrc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Is turblinks/jQuery still the dominant approach to front-end development<br>
>> in the Rails community or is there a shift towards Ember/Angular/React<br>
>> backed by a Rails api?<br>
>><br>
>> gvim<br>
>><br>
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