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Rails is a kitchen-sink of tools for building full stack server rendered monolithic web applications. Even the built in support for webpack/React ("webpacker")
by dbattaglia 9y ago
Rails is a kitchen-sink of tools for building full stack server rendered monolithic web applications. Even the built in support for webpack/React ("webpacker") feels very "rails-ey" compared to just using node. It's still a great framework but it doesn't seem too shocking that bootcamps, trying to teach the new web-dev hotness to students as fast as possible, would drop it. I just wish the article wasn't so dramatic.
- m3talsmith 9y agoIt's the Rails job market driving this change, not hotness.
- skewart 9y agoThey're replacing it with Java/Spring. That's hardly the new web-dev hotness. I suspect this change is less a reflection on Rails and more an indicator that there is a business opportunity to teach new programmers Java, because there are tons of legacy Java apps out in the wild, and the resources for learning Java these days are terrible compared to learning, say, JavaScript.