Actually it depends on the kind of website you'll build. Some years ago, i made an app with Rails and turbolinks and some "tricks" to make ajax work smooth. Th

Actually it depends on the kind of website you'll build. Some years ago, i made an app with Rails and turbolinks and some "tricks" to make ajax work smooth. The first version was built in 6 month, then i rebuilt the second version with React in 3 weeks ! The pain is in refactoring and adding new features as well as speed of development. That's the day i discovered React. The way i develop Rails app is just make api json response to match mocked json on the React frontend, nothing more to think or trick! There's a reason (or many reasons) I and many other chose React (or similar libraries/frameworks) to get the job done.