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Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Frontend

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Rails developers can draw from a huge pool of libraries to build their applications. Dozens of options are available just for templating: do you use ERB, HAML, SASS, or do you prefer a JavaScript approach with Backbone.js or Knockout.js? The possibilities are endless, so we want to find out what our readers are using, or planning to use in the future.

In a first step (RFP), we asked you for suggestions. We received many answers, and after asking about deployment and management, we now ask a second question about frontend. On the x-axis, you can show us what you’re using right now, or what you’ve moved away from and what you plan to adopt next. The y-axis indicates how valuable you think the specific technology or library is.

Here are the options:

  • Backbone.js: light-weight JavaScript MVC library
  • Bootstrap: Twitter’s front-end framework
  • CarrierWave: simple and easy file uploads for Ruby apps
  • CoffeeScript: nicer-looking JavaScript alternative
  • Dojo: tool kit for JavaScript based applications
  • ERB: Ruby’s template system
  • FormTastic: form builder for Rails
  • HAML: concise markup language to describe HTML
  • JS Templates: a meta item for all JS template systems not mentioned explicitly
  • Kaminari: a paginator for Rails
  • Knockout: dynamic JavaScript UIs following the MVVM pattern
  • LESS: extending CSS with dynamic behaviour
  • mustache: templating for HTML, source code, etc
  • Rails Templates + JS: a meta item if you prefer to let Rails handle the templating
  • SASS: more powerful syntax for CSS
  • SimpleForm: flexible and powerful forms DSL

 

 

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