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I'm not saying there are no use cases for a JS framework, and I have a few I like, just that the switch to rails api only/separate react app has in almost every

• rezonant 5y ago
  Imagine you have a Rails controller with a form template and you want to have a section of the form show or hide based on the setting of other form elements, obviously without reloading. Can you do it? Yes. Does Hotwire/Stimulus make this possible? Yes. Can it be done in a nice easy to use way? Yes. If you stretch beyond what Hotwire/Stimulus can let you do, do you have to completely switch over to the "frontend engineering" path of single page applications (React/Angular/Vue/Svelte/etc)? Also yes. Are the primitives you use in Hotwire/Stimulus in any way connected to the ones you'd use if the use case got even a little more complex? Absolutely not. Why not just have one set of primitives that work for all applications? It's not like having some frontend templating logic or reactive forms or whatever is going to actually be harder than just doing it in Rails if you are familiar and comfortable with both. If you aren't comfortable with both, then that's fine.