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Re:How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries by brightball on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:12AM (#26646807)
Yea, I'm a big support of that approach.

My introduction to web programming was raw PHP and it removes any illusions about this stuff being fancy.

Re:How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries by jameshollenbeck on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:50AM (#26647261)
This is still my favorite way to garner a path forward in a language / ecosystem. Remove the fluff at first and - if you reinvent the wheel, at least you get to see the power (or lack thereof) of the language - then start digging into paradigms and libs offered to help you grow with.