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So why did the frontend engineers move on from Ruby on Rails? When I was an ROR developer, RailsCasts would tell you to do basically the same thing as HTMX, re
by gemstones 3y ago
So why did the frontend engineers move on from Ruby on Rails?
When I was an ROR developer, RailsCasts would tell you to do basically the same thing as HTMX, return partial HTML and use a tiny bit of JS to update the appropriate part of the DOM.
It’s a good fit for simple experiences, but breaks down when you need the result to update more than one place (say, a counter by the cart icon, or a set of options in a select in the sidebar.) Then, you hypermedia approach has forced you to try and explore your HTML snippet to pull relevant information, rather than get it in a nice structured format.