I like the rails dev experience, but it feels like they haven’t come up with nice new front end solutions that an integrated framework like nextjs has done.
One specific example is images and srcset. If you are doing a react front end anywhere in your app (not even an SPA) interfacing with the asset pipeline doesn’t have a canonical solution.
This just makes it feel behind the times, since what I always liked about rails was the “one right way” that was always reasonably sane.
So it feels like nowadays you need to trade user functional front end app things, like load time and LCP for dev experience in rails. Sad.
One specific example is images and srcset. If you are doing a react front end anywhere in your app (not even an SPA) interfacing with the asset pipeline doesn’t have a canonical solution.
This just makes it feel behind the times, since what I always liked about rails was the “one right way” that was always reasonably sane.
So it feels like nowadays you need to trade user functional front end app things, like load time and LCP for dev experience in rails. Sad.