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What's the difference between Pjax and Turbolinks? Just a generic version of the same thing? Could Stimulus [Reflex] be hacked to work with Django or does it have strong ties to Rails?
https://github.com/danjac/localhub
Not knocking on stimulusjs, but just be wary that it does not grow well with increasing client side complexity. You'll end up writing a lot of javascript boilerplate / DOM manipulation code / custom state management components. From my experience, it's a nice lightweight tool for when you:
1. Just need to add some light interactivity (toggling visibility of components, any basic view filtering) that do not involve a lot of logic 2. Don't need j.s unit tests (stimulus has not been the most testable tool - we lean mostly on integration tests).
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React is great though, why not just use that?
React is great if all your frontend is React. Using it to create reusable components to sprinkle in your static HTML is overkill, and anyway it does not work with LiveView and LiveView is pretty cool. IMO React has a good data model and solid foundation, but the whole ecosystem it's relying upon is bad. I'm not a fan.
I have great hopes that Stimulus 2.0 and Ruby 3.0 will put Rails back in the spotlight as the sane alternative to SPA abuse. Ruby and Rails have some really talented people on their teams and there's something special about the Ruby language which makes it such a fertile environment for innovation. Only Clojure compares in this respect.
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Rails is already the sane alternative. Any full stack framework is. DotNet, Laravel, Django, Rails... If you think you need a JS framework to handle your UI, you've already lost, and you're doomed to reinventing wheels that these technologies have already perfected.
Isn't Stimilus a JS framework?
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Rails is already the sane alternative. Any full stack framework is. DotNet, Laravel, Django, Rails... If you think you need a JS framework to handle your UI, you've already lost, and you're doomed to reinventing wheels that these technologies have already perfected.
Isn't Stimilus a JS framework?
I worked with Stimulus for about a month and found it to be frustrating: 1. There is not a lot of documentation 2. They don't provide any testing guidelines, the best I've found is hand-wavy test-with-a-browser stuff 3. Everything is essentially global 4. Functions are disconnected from their parameters, i.e. I can't tell which bits of data a function is using without digging through a bunch of code. 5. Putting state…
Ditto. I think if you are an experienced web app dev, understand the pros and cons of something like Stimulus, and set out from the beginning of your project to make PRODUCT decisions within the constraints of something like Stimulus and being more SSR. Then it is a great tool. Anything more complicated though, and you are better off with Vue, React, Etc
Just being able to put
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event.preventDefault()
I have great hopes that Stimulus 2.0 and Ruby 3.0 will put Rails back in the spotlight as the sane alternative to SPA abuse. Ruby and Rails have some really talented people on their teams and there's something special about the Ruby language which makes it such a fertile environment for innovation. Only Clojure compares in this respect.
Rails is already the sane alternative. Any full stack framework is. DotNet, Laravel, Django, Rails... If you think you need a JS framework to handle your UI, you've already lost, and you're doomed to reinventing wheels that these technologies have already perfected.
The amount of extra work and complexity that a separate FE introduces requires serious benefits on the other side of the equation.