Maybe that’s why it’s not really trendy nowadays, even though it seems that it’s gaining popularity with every passing day. JQuery was integrated in Rails at some point, and then for Laravel they stared using Vue. Vue.js is a framework, which acquired its popularity as it works in Laravel (a php-clone of Rails) right out of the box. Well, Zach talked me over and I did decide to give JS one more chance.

The speech was about Vue.js and encouraged to “give JS one more chance”. On the last Railsclub conference, after Zach Briggs’ speech, we were talking for a solid hour on how they solve some frontend problems and that it’s a pain for everybody, and that new times call for new measures. But the project was based on the Rails Asset Pipeline and such a decision was questioned by many new developers. At least as yet.įor my job I had to work using both Rails and Angular, where, thanks to the nice initial architecture, the project support and development were all right. In JS world, unfortunately, it wasn’t like that. No one makes you do that in this particular way, but if so, it’ll work out of the box. Why many of us love Rails so much? Because of the Rails way! There are many ways of doing the same task, but from all of them you will be offered the tried-and-true and the developer-approved one. Nothing consistent here! I just couldn’t spare my time on something I very unlikely would use. The time the new framework appeared, it was already out-of-date or the whole concept was wrong. Every time I took a shot to grasp this new uprising world, I was suffering with the options, instruments, new trendy procedures, arrangement of files and whatnot. And then there was React, Flux/Redux, but this entire frontend hype still went past me. When Angular appeared, developers started to use it with everything and anything. When Node appeared, it became a trend to write the backend using JS. And now you even enjoy doing that.įor me personally, it was unclear for a long time what the frontend actually is, and integrating it with the backend seemed like a magic. Sometimes you start doing something that you always refused to do and thought that noting could make you do that.

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