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Re:Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails by sanderjd on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:28AM (#11814577)
The "blank page" argument was once fairly compelling, but both React and Ember (that I know of) have been increasingly successful at solving that issue.
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Re:Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails by agmcleod on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:41PM (#11817501)
For sure. I've found getting that to work with a rails stack & webpack setup to be rather challenging. react_rails is pretty straight forward, but then you have a lot of global react components, and it gets trickier to leverage NPM. With webpack there's react_on_rails which is a sizable & complex gem, but it does work.

While I wouldn't use vanilla rails & UJS much today, I still think it has value in getting things going.

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