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An under-the-hood look at Backpack
- palish 19y agoIt's insane how much you can accomplish with Rails now, and with these new changes it'll be even better. Yeah, Rails suffers a syndrome of "You can only do these predefined things, in this way", but they're covering more and more ground in terms of what you can do. I predict faders will be a big thing in the near future. People fading colors from one state to another state depending on the context, and fading expansion and contraction of objects on a page, instead of sharp, sudden transitions. Implementing them in Javascript by hand is not fun, so the addition of that to RJS will be great.
- jamesbritt 19y agoIs this all that hard to do? There are quite a few good JavaScript libraries, some arguably better than what's baked into Rails, each offering a range of suitable UI effects. I would prefer to have the ease of choice of such libraries (JQuery, for example, over Prototype.js) and write the not-so-hard JavaScript myself.