Even though I am competent enough with all things JS, conceptually I feel very uneasy about where it has lead us so far, shipping tons of framework instead of content, offloading operations unnecessarily to the client, building things on things that can only be described as brittle.
Not ideologically – who cares – the result just feels bad from an UX perspective. I know all of this can be done smoothly in pure JS, but so far I am waiting for that to be easy, too. Until then Rails + Stimulus seems like one of the most efficient ways to go, when it comes to dev effort per ux points and I'll look into Stimulus Reflex and see what exactly it can add to that.
Even though I am competent enough with all things JS, conceptually I feel very uneasy about where it has lead us so far, shipping tons of framework instead of content, offloading operations unnecessarily to the client, building things on things that can only be described as brittle.
Not ideologically – who cares – the result just feels bad from an UX perspective. I know all of this can be done smoothly in pure JS, but so far I am waiting for that to be easy, too. Until then Rails + Stimulus seems like one of the most efficient ways to go, when it comes to dev effort per ux points and I'll look into Stimulus Reflex and see what exactly it can add to that.