Are you familiar and adept with React/Vue/Svelte? I haven’t looked at Stimulus or Hotwire much yet. Just picked Rails up again a few weeks ago.
Tailwind and Shadcn (or similar ui) are standard for me now.
Yes. It's also recommended to not use much of it and do almost everything else with turbo drive, or turbo frames, or with turbo streams, or with whichever convoluted magic you can do to avoid it until you can't anymore. Then you use Stimulus. Yes, I know it.
The fact people can't escape JavaScript doesn't stop people from being JS haters.
> The fact people can't escape JavaScript doesn't stop people from being JS haters.
It just creates more of them.
The nice thing about stimulus is that it binds the pages I'm making to the javascript. It's all easy to find.
90% of what I want react for is to update just part of the page. This is simple with Hotwire now. There is no added marshalling/unmarshalling of json -- just regular crud requests the same as everywhere else. There is no second programming language. There is no added toolchain.
Adding in Stimulus and I can do most of the other things I've been wanting to do -- like modifying dropdowns.
The one place I can see React perhaps being better is when something happens on the page and I don't talk to the server. For most of my business applications, this doesn't come up as much. But say I was organizing a schedule, only to submit it to the server at the very end, React might be better at dragging things around, labelling them, then one big update at the end. Maybe it's easy in Hotwire also, I don't know yet.
