It's not only microservices, either : building frontend apps largely makes RoR less attractive, today. When SPA came around (I prefer to say "web clients", nowa

It's not only microservices, either : building frontend apps largely makes RoR less attractive, today. When SPA came around (I prefer to say "web clients", nowadays, since they indeed manage multiple pages and routing), we didn't believe in it. Sure, it had nice use cases, but those hashtags in urls and the fact they can't be indexed by search engines certainly meant they were going nowhere. Today, web clients are a thing for many applications (and I build some too). So we're left with RoR to build static pages and APIs, which seems clearly overkilled. I still use rails on many projects, because it's cool how activerecord and actioncontroller allow to build something fast. But actionview, journey, the helpers, the asset pipeline, etc all feel like we're bringing in a lot for no advantage, when writing web clients.