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Re: Rails developers should learn React

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Post by bitexploder »

ungzd wrote: post #9

Wordpress and jQuery have way more job postings. But still React does not require extensive training, it has quite simple API and no quirky concepts, and you can start using it right away without "learning".

I am not so sure I agree. React is anything but easy when getting started. It takes work and an agreement to learn a certain amount of "modern" JS+Web tooling. If you come in with strong engineering and dev background, but not a lot of knowledge about modern web libs and frameworks it can be more than a small chore. I do agree, once you are into it, its design philosophy has a lot of appeal.

Re: Rails developers should learn React

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Post by revorad »

wc_cs wrote: post #10

I'd like to know where he's getting his figures about Rails from. As someone who left a Rails job (no React) fairly recently and has now switched to a React-centric role, while I was job-hunting there didn't seem to be a great demand for developers who knew React and Rails. It's almost like they're suggesting that people from a Django background will be worse off, which I disagree with. Regardless, I do agree that Fu…

I linked to one HN whoishiring thread in the article - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846216 - but if you look at some others, you will notice that a lot of companies are using both Rails and React. I've seen the same on other job boards. My own last consulting gig was at a company which was gradually porting its Rails view layer to React.

Re: Rails developers should learn React

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Post by revorad »

pmontra wrote: post #14

I think this could be right but does one person can really handle both the backend and the frontend projects when the frontend becomes a first class project from day 1 instead of a kind of afterthought? In other words: a single developer can start a Rails+jQuery sugar web site in N days. Where he would be with Rails(API)+React after those N days? Another question. I checked those rails+react gems. The pro is that the…

Re: the gems, you're right. There are multiple approaches. Putting everything in Rails is the easiest to get started, but you can gradually separate React from Rails if your app needs it. I wrote about it here - https://learnetto.com/blog/3-ways-to-use-react-with-ruby-on-...

Re: Rails developers should learn React

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Post by mhd »

If there's one current technology that I wouldn't call omakase, it would be React. I thought it would get better once redux reached a certain mindshare, but now there's a plethora of redux helpers, "best" practices etc. (Each of which seems to focus on a new and/or experimental JavaScript language feature)

Hey, I program Perl in my day job, but this is way too much Tim Toady even for me.

(And if "more money" were the only reason for technology adoption, there's probably more to be made in Enterprise Java development, at least on average)

Re: Rails developers should learn React

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Post by eterm »

joekrill wrote: post #22
miloshadzic wrote: post #20

developers should learn X - What you know Y - Technology du jour

It absolutely baffles me that people still like to call React a "Technology du jour". It's ubiquitous today. It's _THE_ go-to front-end web development UI framework.

In your bubble that might be true.

In my bubble everyone is still using mostly ad-hoc jquery consisting half of snippets copy-pasted from stackoverflow.

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