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shakacode
react_on_rails
Ruby2015–2024
shakacode / react_on_rails

react_on_rails

Integration of React + Webpack + Rails including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Integration of React + Webpack + Rails including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

React plus Rails is my favorite modern combo. Development bliss. https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-18 08:44:05 UTC to 2024-12-25 09:30:18 UTC.

012342015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

4 sources
judahmeek·Nov 13, 2016
Yes, you certainly can. This is actually a topic that I've been exploring for a little while now. http://www.openmindedinnovations.com/blogs/3-ways-to-integra... is a decent, although old article on the three different ways that it can be done. I personally recommend https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails as the solution to this issue. Instead of merely providing you with React and React only like https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails does, it welds Node & Rails together to enable you to use the latest and greatest of the javascript ecosystem. As for the benefits of doing so, having started my web development journey with Rails, I like to think that Rails provides an excellent convention for Backend MVC & ORM while Node gives you access to up-to-date javascript libraries & frameworks. Combining Node & Rails allows to you to exploit
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the strengths of both systems in exchange for dealing with greater complexity.
In Ask HN: Someone here to team up with me on a project to learn React together?
RobertKerans·May 18, 2016
React Rails[1] works fine: you just get React, and it's difficult to integrate other shiny React-associated stuff like Redux, but it makes it incredibly easy to build out an app, or even just sprinkle components throughout an existing Rails app. It's dead simple to get started, and I've found it generally Just Works; the whole team I work on has been using it for the last 4-5 months without any issues. Just add to Gemfile -> it sets up a components folder + a file that imports the file tree -> then optionally set initializer options (like include React Addons, or use stage-0 stuff). All exposed globals though, which is a pain, but that's generally expected with the asset pipeline unless you're very disciplined. There's a pretty complete tutorial, but it's a bit out of date + uses CoffeeScript rather than JSX - I made a copy of the origina
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l, with updates, for one of my colleagues, the gist is here (sorry, might be a little rough): https://gist.github.com/DanCouper/b6953544a34606617eb5 To get a bit deeper, there's React on Rails[2], which retains the same entry point, but moves all the JS to a separate folder at root, and uses Node to handle that side of things during development. The setup is batteries included, and pretty flexible, but I haven't used it a huge amount so can't give much detailed feedback. 1. https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails 2. https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails
In React-Boilerplate v3: The “JS Fatigue Antivenin” Edition
justin808·Mar 26, 2016
Picking either in-office or "remote-first" is what matters most. Companies cannot optimally be both simultaneously. I'm Justin Gordon, the founder of ShakaCode, http://www.shakacode.com. My article and video on telecommuting from Maui is still the number one google search result for "telecommuting maui": http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2014/05/06/remote-pair-progr.... I've been a full-time remote worker from Maui, since 2007, a remote freelancer since 2011, and over the last 2 years, I've run a remote consulting and product company. To brador, that says "Remote devs start to have mental health issues from the loneliness and lack of supervision in down times", I'd say that's total hogwash. We spend almost every day video chatting on Skype with people (team members and clients) around the world, and we are very often on ScreenHero sharing s
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creens (often with Skype video), and always on Slack and github conversations. There is 100% no loneliness with this lifestyle. In fact, I'd say spending 1-2 hours a day commuting is a far bigger risk for physical and mental health issues! Since I founded my company to be 100% remote-first, we've avoided many of the issues that face companies that are schizophrenic about remote work. I've heard numerous stories around Silicon Valley about how companies start allowing "work from home days" and then the senior managers see the parking lot 3/4's empty at 11am, and then there's an ultimatum that you have to work from the office unless you have specific management approval to work from home for one given day. And I'm NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING ONE BIT! One of the keys to my firms success is to hire team members that love what they do, either programming or design, and that typically interact well on open source. To that end, I've found almost all my team members though our popular open source, https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails/ (1238+ stars), which is the number one package that integrates Ruby on Rails with React via Webpack and NPM.
In Ask HN: How do you integrate remote developers?

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