Re: [NWRUG] Hotwire v React

2024-04-24 Thread Ian Moss
Similar, in that for rails 5 or rails 6, many projects had a JS front-end - Vue.js was pretty popular at one point, whilst react was very popular it felt like overkill for many use cases. I actually gave up on the front-end side, as the JS side was just changing all the time, and it was too

Re: [NWRUG] Hotwire v React

2024-04-24 Thread Rahoul Baruah
Sorry - a bit of a long response below. > Okay everyone ... this 'debate' got going on another thread I started. > > I've used React before and have found using Turbo frames and Stimulus to be > like a breath of fresh air, especially how well they integrate with the rest > of the Rails

Re: [NWRUG] Hotwire v React

2024-04-24 Thread Lee Hambley
Hi Daz, I wanted to jump in actually move the question away a bit from "X vs Y" to talk about some of the philosophy, and 2nd order consequences of such a discussion. Starting with philosophy, Rails is _heavily_ "convention over configuration" driven, but it's a way of expressing that a bit part