u/imnosin r/ExperiencedDevs • Recommends
On “Resurgence of Ruby on Rails?”
…nt speed.
I think part of the recent resurgence may be due to the release of Rails 7 which has changes that allow you to make lightning fast applications that behave like SPAs but don't need you to use Vue/React/Angular (they ripped out Webpack completely) - only sprinkles of JS with Stimulus.
Worth checking out these official demo vids:-
* link to this video
* link to this video
There's also the recent release of Ruby 3 which makes Ruby 3x faster than before - https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-3-features - so I'm sure that's partly responsible too.
I've been a Rails dev for around 5 years and it's a delight to work with. Glad to see it gaining popularity again.…