What is React on Rails?
Project Objective: To provide an opinionated and optimal framework for integrating Ruby on Rails with React via the Webpacker gem.
React on Rails integrates Facebook's React front-end framework with Rails. React v0.14.x and greater is supported, with server rendering. Redux and React-Router are supported as well, also with server rendering, using execJS.
React on Rails is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
React on Rails is an open source tool with 5.1K GitHub stars and 629 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to React on Rails's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses React on Rails?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use React on Rails in their tech stacks, including Frontend, FCM, and CaratLane.
Developers
20 developers on StackShare have stated that they use React on Rails.
React on Rails's Features
- server-side rendering
- turbolinks compatibility
- redux support
- react-router support
- webpacker support
- internationalization
React on Rails Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to React on Rails?
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
Webpack
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
React Native
React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.