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Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Rails Views vs Server-Side Rendered HTML With JavaScript Sprinkles

In 2014, if I wanted to build an interesting user interface with drag and drop or with simple actions not requiring a full-blown page refresh, you could start any application. So there's this chasm in the middle where you, it's just so hard to jump from one to the other. And Stimulus respects that because you're binding to sub fragments of the DOM. But me as a developer, as far as I know, I'm just designing these server side templates just like I always was. It moves the control further towards the server side such that when I think about what I've been able to build with Ruby seven years ago, now I can go even further.

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