I've been developing rails for over 10 years, and I somewhat have seen this focus shift - but partly it's due to the complexity of frontend interfaces these day

I've been developing rails for over 10 years, and I somewhat have seen this focus shift - but partly it's due to the complexity of frontend interfaces these days. I myself would often spin up a rails api + react frontend. With rails 5.1 and especially webpacker_react I've seen a possible new direction which combines the best of both worlds. I think we could see something pretty exciting in this space soon if the integration of rails+react can tighten up a bit.