TOtosh·Jan 18, 2021Submission
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tailwindcss-rails
Ruby2021–2021
rails / tailwindcss-rails
tailwindcss-rails
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I recommend (subjectively of course) Ruby on Rails. It is a full-stack offering together with Ruby Gems ecosystem solutions to a wide range of things that I want to achieve…
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Observed mentions: 2021-01-14 14:53:51 UTC to 2021-01-18 17:01:10 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jan 14, 12:00 | 2021-01-14 12:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-14 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jan 14, 18:00 | 2021-01-14 18:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15, 00:00 | 2021-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-15 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15, 06:00 | 2021-01-15 06:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-15 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15, 12:00 | 2021-01-15 12:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-15 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15, 18:00 | 2021-01-15 18:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-16 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 16, 00:00 | 2021-01-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-16 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 16, 06:00 | 2021-01-16 06:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-16 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 16, 12:00 | 2021-01-16 12:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-16 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 16, 18:00 | 2021-01-16 18:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 17, 00:00 | 2021-01-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-17 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 17, 06:00 | 2021-01-17 06:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-17 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 17, 12:00 | 2021-01-17 12:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-17 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 17, 18:00 | 2021-01-17 18:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 18, 00:00 | 2021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-18 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 18, 06:00 | 2021-01-18 06:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-18 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 18, 12:00 | 2021-01-18 12:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-18 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesI recommend (subjectively of course) Ruby on Rails.
It is a full-stack offering together with Ruby Gems ecosystem solutions to a wide range of things that I want to achieve with a webapp. I like a lot how people in this community tries to simplify a lot of the complexities of modern tools.
In the Ruby (and Rails ecosystem) you should take a look at https://hotwire.dev - helping create amazing web apps with less Javascript code. There are a lot of things to like there, but you can start small with Stimulus JS, which for me offers good enough JS code to do small UI things.
Then there is https://docs.stimulusreflex.com - for creating reactive web apps without going full SPA mode.
And here it is the latest addition to this eco-system (that I know of): https://github.com/rails/tailwindcss-rails. This is integrating Tailwind directly in assets
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pipeline of Rails. No need to configure webpack and postcss and whatever other configs. You can directly use Tailwind by adding this gem.
Speaking of, DHH looks like he's using tailwind with Rails, so the use-case is getting some love! DHH created this gem:
https://github.com/rails/tailwindcss-rails
In StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails