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Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Hmm, Rails, I wonder if the UI will work well. I open https://railsui.com/components . I click on the different components. They switch to a random component after a while. My confidence in Rails for UI stays were it was :)

It's switching components every 8 seconds, like a carousel. It's a bit unfair to judge Rails UI by that, but I agree, it's not a good first impression.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

#92
Wow, didn't realize that you're the one behind the Webcrunch channel. Never got into Rails but I loved your Affinity videos back in the day, you're also one of the functional CSS/Tailwind early adopters on YT.

That's where I discovered TW back in 2018 I think. It was even before the Refactoring UI book and videos and the first official version of TW.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

#93
Looks great, and honestly not sure why something like this doesn't come out of the box in rails (it includes the kitchen sink for the most part sans ui)

One suggestion I'd make is to disable the autorotation of ui elements on your main page, it's unintuitive and has a frustratingly short timeout before cycling to the next ui element.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

#95
Laravel has - Flux UI [0]

Personally though I use rails - I just opt for Bootstrap, otherwise just inertia + PrimeVue

if you really wanna have dope components such as shad whatever - then of course you can always opt for Rails + Inertia React + Component library

[0]: https://fluxui.dev/docs/installation

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

#96

Is this another Tailwind wrapper? Yes, it is.

Do you not use Tailwind? What is being wrapped? Designed and built this all as a Ruby gem, you can one-click install if you want to build prototypes with Rails even faster. I suppose you're not the target customer, but thanks for chiming in.

My apologies if this came off as too condescending and harsh. I’m coming from the receiving end of an app which uses Tailwind and many developers run wild with class-soup in their changes, causing all sorts of inconsistency.

Still, does not justify the caustic comment. And I’ll be spending this entire weekend obsessing on how to do better.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

#97
post #95

Laravel has - Flux UI [0] Personally though I use rails - I just opt for Bootstrap, otherwise just inertia + PrimeVue if you really wanna have dope components such as shad whatever - then of course you can always opt for Rails + Inertia React + Component library [0]: https://fluxui.dev/docs/installation

"just a whole extra framework"

"if you really wanna have dope components such as shad whatever - then of course you can always opt for Rails + Inertia React + Component library"

I don't think the target audience of RailsUI are people who want to use a front-end javascript framework.

A more suitable alternative is: https://railsblocks.com/

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

#98
post #89

Hmm, Rails, I wonder if the UI will work well. I open https://railsui.com/components . I click on the different components. They switch to a random component after a while. My confidence in Rails for UI stays were it was :)

What's a better play? Drop the carousel? Open to ideas!

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

#99
post #92

Wow, didn't realize that you're the one behind the Webcrunch channel. Never got into Rails but I loved your Affinity videos back in the day, you're also one of the functional CSS/Tailwind early adopters on YT. That's where I discovered TW back in 2018 I think. It was even before the Refactoring UI book and videos and the first official version of TW.

Dang, you're going way back! Thanks for chiming in. It has been a long road :)

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

#100

Looks great, and honestly not sure why something like this doesn't come out of the box in rails (it includes the kitchen sink for the most part sans ui) One suggestion I'd make is to disable the autorotation of ui elements on your main page, it's unintuitive and has a frustratingly short timeout before cycling to the next ui element.

I heard this from others so will do!
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