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I still can't believe how productive Rails is either. One can literally recreate the most popular CRUD apps in a weekend

I've been learning React and played around with a Rails API backend and separate React front-end and I forget just how much work Rails takes out

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I think nowadays there are a lot of people that only built SPAs and never have used a framework such as Rails or Django, and that's a pity. They are missing a perfectly valid and productive way of shipping quality software.

I've had good results with the react-rails gem, basically letting me plop bits of react into a rails view. It's not like, the best the in the world from a pure design standpoint? But it does a really, really good job of not having react step on the toes of all the super nice things that Rails will do for you.

Yeah that sounds like the best of both worlds, I'll give it a try

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