I am a dev with 3 years of experience in Laravel and Meteor.Js using fronts like ReactJs.
I got a client who specifically asked for a ROR Back-End and ReactJs Front-end. I was planning to make them separately and connect them via API since the clients also want to in the future move it to apps stores and I will just reuse the back for all.
I wanted to confirm if this is the right approach and any advice from experienced ROR developers about things I have to watch out for.
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I’m a daily user of the RubyMine IDE from Jetbrains. It supports React, allowing you to work with both Ruby/Rails and React code together. It’s one of the few commercial apps that I’m happy to pay for. React | RubyMine Documentation.
I am not experienced with combining Rails with React but based on some reading, if no React server side rendering is needed, it could be as simple as adding React islands to a vanilla Rails app (I would try using bun though - rails new -j bun). Then the routing would be handled by Rails/Hotwire for the SPA experience. Or React Router could be added if required.
I also found these articles interesting on the topic: 1, 2, 3. I also came accross gems offering React and Rails integration but they seem to rely on webpack.