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I think he wanted to know why you decided that you actually needed React on the front-end, as opposed to doing it «the Rails-way»: HOTwire Stimulus etc.? https

• snemvalts 5y ago
  Some back end devs unwilling to learn React are planning to try it. However as I understand, it's using WebSocket. At my previous job, building a customer service view that used it solely for real time updates, I wouldn't use it for anything critical without some heavy fault tolerance (like checksums or a simple incrementable number to count how many messages have been sent). The messages can be randomly dropped by whatever is in between. I wouldn't want to write in Stimulus as a front-end dev. It looks like writing AngularJS from 2012, way too imperative. Template and logic are also separate which makes legibility harder compared to JSX.
  • redbar0n 5y ago
    AFAIK Hotwire Stimulus isn’t using WebSockets. I think you’re thinking of StimulusReflex. Normal Hotwire Stimulus is just JS controllers that references DOM nodes via CSS tags. Example: https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/ https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/ I agree that JSX is better. Check out Rux which is «A jsx-inspired way to render view components in Ruby» [to make HTML on the server]. https://github.com/camertron/rux https://github.com/camertron/rux